Title

Radical son : a journey through our times

Description

In a narrative that possesses both remarkable political importance and extraordinary literary power, David Horowitz tells the story of his startling political odyssey from Sixties radical to Nineties conservative. A political document of our times, Radical Son traces three generations of one American family's infatuation with the radical left from the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 to the collapse of the Marxist empire six decades later. 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 populates Radical Son with vivid portraits of people who made the radical decade, while unmaking America at the same time. We are introduced to an aged Bertrand Russell, the world-famous philosopher and godson of John Stuart Mill, who in his nineties became America's scourge, organizing.a War Crimes Tribunal over the war in Vietnam. There is Tom Hayden, the radical Everyman who promoted guerrilla warfare in America's cities in the Sixties, married film legend Jane Fonda, and became a Democratic state senator when his revolutions failed. We meet Huey Newton, a street hustler and murderer who founded a black militia that became the Sixties' most resonant symbol of black power and black militance. Horowitz's encounter with Newton and his Black Panthers,the most celebrated radical group of the Sixties, becomes the focal point of the story when a brutal murder committed by the Panthers changes his life forever, prompting the profound "second thoughts" that eventually led him to become an intellectual leader of conservatism and its most prominent activist in Hollywood.

Identifier

676063

068482793X

Creator

Horowitz, David

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1997

Program air date: April 13, 1997

Publisher

Free Press

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpapers: Shay. Larry Jarvik, Elaine Brown, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Michael Lerner p. 274. Books--The Rockefellers, The Fords, The Kennedys. Betty Van Patten, Eilen Sparer. Brief affair with Abby Rockefeller p. 281. In common with Whittaker Chambers? AIDS led to going from left to right p. 329. WASH Post 1985 piece on changing politics. What was so attractive about being a communist. The Rosenbergs, the Khrushchev Report. Red diaper babies: Sol Stern, Bob Scher, Maurice Zeitlin, Todd Gitlin, Tom Hayden. The Student a book, 25,000 copies, 1st book of New Left--Mario Savio. The Free World Colossus--Cold War from left. Center for the Study of Popular Culture, olen/Bradley/Scaife p. 404. Heterodoxy 1992. Letter to Political Friend/Carol Pasternak most important work p. 380. Marty Peretz, Rampart, Gary Wills, Buckley. Underlinings/Notes: Underlinings: Details on family, education, NY, parents' lives, politics, writings, life. Notes: "left some people out," "mother and father dead," "Whittaker Chambers," "my father a Marxist," "35 years," "dream of social revolution," "Walter Duranty," "mother a party member," "disdain for religion," "Rosenbergs," "awful memory," "Stalin's death," "NY Times, Do you believe everything," "Khrushchev Report," "ideas are impt.," "Tolstroy's confession," "Lionel Trilling," "Toilet paper," "Peter Boodberg," "Martin Buber," "Red diaper babies," "Port Huron," "1962 Student," "Saul Landau," "Ramparts," "Elaine on phone," "Tammy," "Mel and Ellen," "16 yr. old killed Ellen," "socialism," "a seminar," "sex ended," "1974 Abby wanted everything out of the book," "Noam Chomsky," "Bobby Jr.," "Bobby cocaine," "heroin addict," "Teddy," "Billy Ayers," "Mark Rudd," "Jim Mellen," "malice," "the baths," "I'd like to kill you," "conservative side of argument," "son Jon," "Sarah, Ben, Anne," "David," "Kennedys--$750,000 paperback rights," "new wife," "wife sued," "1985 W. Post voted for R. Reagan," "Lefties for Reagan," "Betty's daughter Tamara," "my father," "Ford bio," "Henry Ford II," "Shay Marlowe," "my mother stroke," "52 yrs married," "my father crazy," "Shay and my mother," "1987 State Dept. Nicaragua," "Ron Dellums, Geo. Crockett," "Managua," "Marxists," "apologized to Denton," "Garry Wills," "Marty Peretz," "Cockburn, Hitchens, Alterman, Gitlin, Blumenthal," "Carol Pasternak," "David Rieff," "Rieff spitting at me," "Rick Hertzberg," "anti-Communist liberals," "Huey Newton killed 1989," "Angela Davis U. of M. lounge name,""Olin, Bradley, Scaife," "Hetrodoxy April 1992," "Edward Said," "$10,000," "Larry Jarvik," "Mom died," "Brunie," "Shay,""Hugh Pearson," "Bob Dole's 88 campaign."

Subject

"Horowitz, David, 1939-"

"Political activists--United States--Biography."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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