The Art of Political War and Other Radical Pursuits - Hardcover

Horowitz, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1890626287 ISBN 13: 9781890626280

Publisher: Spence Pub, 2000

Synopsis

Politics is war, but in America one side is doing all the shooting-liberals. Shell-shocked conservatives blame their failures on the media or unscrupulous opponents, but they refuse to name the real culprit: themselves. In a new book that will shatter the complacency of establishment conservatives, David Horowitz shows how Bill Clinton's generation, having mastered the art of political war, has spent the last ten years clobbering conservatives in and out of government. The best-selling author of Hating Whitey and Other Progressive Causes has the strategy to fight back.

The Democratic Party's recent electoral dominance is due not to its theft of Republican issues, but to its superior grasp of the nature of political war. Horowitz opens his book with the six principles of politics that liberals understand and conservatives do not. He next warns against the essentially liberal inclination to supervise the lives of a "helpless" citizenry. This "Puritan impulse" promises shipwreck for conservatives who fail to keep liberty as their watchword.

The success of the left is nowhere more evident than in the politics of race. Revisiting a recent controversy in which Time branded him a "real live bigot," Horowitz probes an ugly strain of left-wing racism and reflects on the prospects for true racial justice. He concludes with a profile of the radical mentality-hidden but real-of the American left. In 1972, the bomb-throwers took their battle from the streets into the McGovern campaign and became the activist core of the Democratic Party. A genuine ideological left thus entered the heart of America's political culture.

Once a notorious radical himself, David Horowitz understands the mind of the left better than any other conservative. The Art of Political War is an indispensable guide for the battles of the campaign season and beyond.

About this title

From the Publisher:

DAVID HOROWITZ, the author of Hating Whitey, Radical Son, and The Politics of Bad Faith, is one of America's most original and iconoclastic political commentators. He is president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, editor of the journal Heterodoxy, and a columnist for the on-line magazine Salon. Mr. Horowitz lives in Los Angeles.

About the Author:

David Horowitz is one of America's most original and iconoclastic political commentators. He is the coauthor of the New York Times bestsellers The Rockefellers and The Kennedys. He is a founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and lives in California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Spence Pub
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1890626287
• ISBN 13: 9781890626280
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224