Left illusions : an intellectual odyssey / David Horowitz ; edited, with an introduction by, Jamie Glazov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horowitz, David, 1939-2025.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horowitz, David, 1939-2025.

Right and left (Political science).

Horowitz, David, 1939-2025--Political and social views.

Horowitz, David.

Political and social views.

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 497 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Dallas : Spence Pub. Co., [2003]

Summary:

Horowitz's newest book provides the first map of his intellectual development. Complementing his acclaimed autobiography, "Radical Son," the selections in "Left Illusions" range from his first book, published over 40 years ago, to his most recent writings on the war against terror.

Contents:

I Beginnings

2 Idols 6

3 Imagination and Perception 15

II The New Left

4 A Generation of Silence 25

5 New Politics 29

6 Hand-Me-Down Marxism 34

7 Solzhenitsyn and the Radical Cause 38

8 The Passion of the Jews 46

9 Telling It Like It Wasn't 72

III Second Thoughts

11 Left Illusions 102

12 My Vietnam Lessons 110

13 Semper Fidel: The Battle over Nicaragua 117

14 The Road to Nowhere 126

IV Reflections on Race

15 Memories in Memphis 151

16 Liberals and Race 161

17 Ten Reasons Why Reparations Are a Bad Idea

and Racist, Too 170

18 Racism and Free Speech 182

19 Conservatives and Race 194

V The Gramscian Moment

20 The Intellectual Class War 207

21 Missing Diversity 214

22 Wake Up America: My Visit to Vanderbilt 222

23 The Era of Progressive Witch-Hunts 230

VI Progressive Witch-Hunts

24 Carl Bernstein's Communist Problem and Mine 245

25 Et Tu, John? 256

26 Michael Lind and the Right-Wing Cabal 271

27 Defending Christopher Hitchens 288

VII The Post-Communist Left

28 Marx's Manifesto: 150 Years of Evil 299

29 From Red to Green 308

30 V-Day, 2001 315

31 AIDS: Political Origins of an Epidemic 319

32 An American Killing Field 330

33 The Meaning of Left and Right 336

VIII The Art of Political War

34 The Art of Political War 343

35 How to Beat the Democrats 356

IX The War on Terror

36 Know Your Enemy 369

37 Port Huron and the War on Terror 376

38 Clinton's Pardoned Bombers 384

39 Why Israel Is the Victim 393

40 Can There Be a Decent Left? 409

41 Alienation in a Time of War 416

42 Neo-Communism 425

X Envoi

43 Roads Not Taken 441.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1890626511

OCLC:

53381451