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Introduction: Peter Collier and David Horowitz's Destructive Generation
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BOOK WORLD
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8 / 1989 |
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The sixties being to mind vivid images of righteous turmoil, free love, and free thought. Peter Colier and David Horowitz were at the center of that cyclone of activity. They met in graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley in the early sixties and afterward became editors of the New Left magazine Ramparts.
Since then these two men have reexamined their radical commitments and rejected them. Destructive Generation is the compelling story of their inner intellectual drama. They make a strong statement about the dangers of hard-line leftism and the consequences of its infiltration of America's politics and culture today.
Our excerpt of Destructive Generation is in two parts. The first, a chapter titled "Radical Innocence, Radical Guilt," is a good representation of the book's philosophical statement. The second part is more personal. From the "Self Portraits" section we are reprinting Horowitz's "Letter to a Political Friend." This is a moving account of how family and experience influenced Horowitz's political thinking, how he analyzed his ideas in the light of events, and how and why he changed.
Colier and Horowitz have provoked fervent response. We include commentaries on Destructive Generation from three points of
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