As leading New Leftists in the Sixties, Peter Collier and David Horowitz were intimately involved in the radicalism of the day. Later on, they became the first of their generation to publicly reject the objectives of that revolutionary era and point out the cultural chaos it had left behind. Part memoir, part political analysis, part social history, DESTRUCTIVE GENERATION is the compelling story of their intellectual journey into and out of the radical trenches. Telling stories of the New Left's most famous (and infamous) personalities and events, Collier and Horowitz reveal the destructive legacy of the Sixties and the way in which that decade continues to cast a long shadow over politics and culture today. When it was first published more than a decade ago, DESTRUCTIVE GENERATION was a controversial bestseller that some critics compared to Whittaker Chambers' powerful political testament, WITNESS. This new edition contains new material which makes this classic work more relevant than ever in our own divided time.
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Presents a story of an intellectual journey into and out of the radical trenches.
Introduction; Part I: The Dancers and the Dance -- Requiem for a Radical; Doing It; Post-Vietnam Syndrome; A Decade Overrated and Unmourned; Baddest. Part II: Second Thoughts -- Divided Loyalties; McCarthy's Ghost; Slouching Towards Berkeley; The Origins of a Political Epidemic; Radical Innocence, Radical Guilt. Part III: Self Portraits -- Something Happened to Me Yesterday; Letter to a Political Friend; The Middle of the Journey; Index.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781594030826
Publisert
2006-01-12
Utgiver
Vendor
Encounter Books,USA
Vekt
652 gr
Høyde
227 mm
Bredde
159 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
400