By Richard Gid Powers Originally published in the New York Times David Horowitz’s warmly human and abrasive memoir, ”Radical Son,” carries on its jacket the phrase ”A Generational Odyssey.” As with the rest of this fine autobiography, the choice of phrase is artful. Born in New York City in 1939, the child of Communist parents, […]
Right Turn Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey. By David Horowitz. Free Press. 468 pp. $27.50. Reviewed by Ramesh Ponnuru David Horowitz is the most prominent member of his generation to have made the political trek from left to right. He has become, no doubt because of his radical background, one of the right’s most effective […]
A former editor of Ramparts reflects on a life after radicalism David Horowitz’s warmly human and abrasive memoir, ”Radical Son,” carries on its jacket the phrase ”A Generational Odyssey.” As with the rest of this fine autobiography, the choice of phrase is artful. Born in New York City in 1939, the child of Communist parents, […]