Vol. 64 No. 2 1997 - page 345

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The First Great American
Autobiography of This Generation.
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Radical S n
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one of the best
~olitical
memoirs
I've ever read.
Though it is really a love story–
one man becomes pass ionatel y
enamored of freedom, responsi–
bility, and reason, 0 .. maybe it's
a book about faith healing, a
true account of how belief in
human dignity and indi vidual
rights cures blindness, folly,
and hatred, Anyway, everyone
who was ever involved with or
influenced by the New Left
should read David Horowitz's
words, and then eat their own,
I think the last political book that affected me thi s strongly was
Hayek's
Road to Serfdom, ,,
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" David Horowitz has written a
vivid and compelling memoir
in which it's the life as it was really lived that maHet's, not just
the politics,
Radical
S Oil
Illay be 'a generational odyssey,' but it's
also a wOI'k of literature" ,
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" A document of the first importance
for understanding the legacy of '60s
radicalism.
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is th e bes tselling co-author of
The
Rocke/eLlers
and
The
Kennec~rs,
president of the Center for the
tlJdy of Popular CuJ ttll'e, and co-editor of
Heterodox),,-
Published by Th e Fl'ee Pl'ess,
Radical
S Oil
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availab le at local bookstores eVCl'ywhe re;
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