Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey [VINTAGE 2020] [SIGNED 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION]
Language: English
Published by Bombardier Books, an imprint of Post Hill Press, New York, 2020
- Signed
- Hardcover
- New
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.Vero Beach Books
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Condition: New
US$ 125.00
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New condition black boards with silver spine lettering contained in a new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Advance Praise for Radical Son; Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; Preface; Prologue; Index and About the Author. Signed by the author, David Horowitz, with thin black ink on a bookplate entitled "David Horowitz Freedom Center Signed Edition" which is neatly affixed to the center of the blank first free front endpaper. "One of the most compelling and important political memoirs in recent American history - republished after more than twenty years with a new introduction by the author. 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." - from the rear outer jacket. "Horowitz's memoir - often painful, occasionally maddening, always riveting - is a spiritual authobiography about the costs and consequences of bad commitments. The implications of his political choices haunt Horowitz on every page, from the breakup of his two marriages to his estrangement from his Communist father; from shattered friendships with former comrades to reconciliation with his grown children. This painful and difficult journey from Left to Right has made Horowitz the most hated ex-radical of his generation. In telling his story he provides not just an intimate personal account of his own transformation, but a scathing moral history of the American Left, and a guide to the evolving political conscience of an entire generation." - from the inner front jacket flap.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey [VINTAGE 2020] [SIGNED 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION]
- Author
- Horowitz, David
- Publisher
- Bombardier Books, an imprint of Post Hill Press, New York
- Publication year
- 2020
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- New
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Cequina, Jomel (cover design); Johnson, Greg (interior design and composition)
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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- SIGNED ITEMS
Vero Beach Books
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