Radical Son, David Horowitz
Radical Son, David Horowitz
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Radical Son
A Generational Odyssey

Author: David Horowitz

Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach

Unabridged: 20 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/28/2009

Synopsis

David Horowitz was one of the founders of the New Left and an editor of Ramparts, the magazine that set the intellectual and revolutionary tone for the movement. From his vantage point at the center of the action, he provides vivid portraits of people who made the radical decade: worldfamous philosopher Bertrand Russell, who in his nineties became America's scourge, organizing a War Crimes Tribunal over the war in Vietnam; Tom Hayden, the radical Everyman who promoted guerrilla warfare in America's cities in the Sixties and became a Democratic state senator when his revolutions failed; and Huey Newton, a street hustler and murderer who founded the most celebrated radical group of the Sixties, the Black Panthers. A brutal murder committed by the Panthers prompted Horowitz's profound "second thoughts" that eventually transformed him into an intellectual leader of conservatism and its most prominent activist in Hollywood.

About David Horowitz

David Horowitz is a noted conservative commentator and a nationally bestselling author. He is the founder and CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center in Los Angeles and the author of Big Agenda, Radical Son, and The Black Book of the American Left.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin) on January 14, 2018

There is so much I could say here. I will say a bit about the book but first I want to do something I've done before and also I'd like to dedicate it to a specific group. As it happens I read this just after the election (2016). Right now a lot of young people are protesting and many are saying thing......more

Goodreads review by Robert on September 01, 2013

Radical son, while autobiographical, is a thrilling psychological narrative. Though the book is political in nature and ultimately takes a very strong political stand, the overall tome is an account of David Horowitz's personal experience with a disengaged father, who never met his pleasure. In other......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on July 23, 2015

Winston Churchill once said, “If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.” I first read it as a thoroughly conservative 17 year old. And I thought, "Hmm." And filed it away. Nobody had yet actually called me heartless, but most teenag......more

Goodreads review by Peter on January 12, 2011

David Horowitz is a fairly well-known commentator and activist on the Right. What many folks under the age of 50 may not realize is that he was one of the most influential and outspoken members of the radical Left in the 60s. Many of his writings were used as "textbooks" for many radicals of the tim......more

Goodreads review by Christopher on March 25, 2014

Horowitz is a sociopath, but this book is still interesting to read. There are some legitimate criticisms of tendencies toward closed-mindedness in the liberal community, though they tend to disappear among the long passages of paranoia, racism, and self-worship. Worth reading if you'd like to see i......more

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