The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America (Hardcover)

~ David Horowitz (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Horowitz, author of Unholy Alliance and founder of FrontPageMag.com, profiles 101 professors whose politics run left of center (in many cases, very, very left of center), and though his list is impressive in size and the amount of research that went into it, the most egregious crimes perpetrated by the majority of these academics is that their politics don't mesh with Horowitz's. Which isn't to say Horowitz hasn't turned up a few surprises: a Northwestern University law professor has a sordid history involving the Weather Underground, and a Rutgers University professor's early poems included lines like, "Rape the white girls" and "I got the extermination blues, jewboys." However, his intention to expose the majority of these professors as "dangerous" and undeserving of their coveted positions seems petty in some cases, as when he smugly mocks the proliferation of departments dedicated to peace studies or considers "anti-war activist" as a character flaw. The only noteworthy point that emerges from Horowitz's melodramatic finger pointing is his questioning of the tenure system, which he believes "serves to protect mediocrity and encourage incompetence." More distressing to Horowitz, it would appear, is that tenure allows professors who disagree with his personal political opinions to continue teaching.
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Product Description

Bestselling author David Horowitz reveals a shocking and perverse culture of academics who are poisoning the minds of today's college students. The Professors is a wake-up call to all those who assume that a college education is sans hatred of America and the American military and support for America's terrorist enemies.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 450 pages
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.; 1ST edition (February 13, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0895260034
• ISBN-13: 978-0895260031
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.3 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (209 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #279,015 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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69 of 94 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Book, May 4, 2006

By	Kevman (White Plains, NY USA) - See all my reviews

It is obvious that many people do not like to have any challenge to the extremism existing in some colleges. Thats why there so many one star reviews of this book by people who obviously have not read it. While I don't always agree with the author's point of view, this is an intersting book and points out what one may be exposed to at colleges. Many professors seek indoctrination not education and free and open discussions of issues often are not allowed (if you oppose any position of some professors, you are considered a "hate monger"). I had a few crazed professors in the 1970s, but nothing as terrible as Ward Churchill or some of the others exposed in this book. I enjoyed the book and thought it was very readable. I do not think these 101 professors are representative of all college professors, most of whom are very good and seek to provide an education. This book does provide a fair warning for what is out there and takes the lid off of some often closely held secrets.

215 of 304 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Many will be disappointed to be left off, February 24, 2006

By	Phillip Hallam-baker (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Isn't writing lists of people you hate meant to be something that you grow out of by the age of 15 or so?

Horowitz appears to be trying to emulate the success of Neo-McCarthyite Ann Coulter. It just won't work. First, Horowitz can manage sloppy scholarship but when it comes to making stuff up his attempts are truly pathetic. [...]

173 of 245 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars It's always the converts who go overboard, February 23, 2006

By	jaljohnson (Los Angeles, California USA) - See all my reviews

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This book is mostly a rehash of the previous whines about various leftwing professors, and their supposed abuses. It's not nearly as entertaining as his prior book about his apotheosis, and doesn't really offer anything new or interesting. Just the formulaic list of baddies who I suppose ought to be expunged from University life for crimes real or imagined. Or maybe they should be put in Malkin-run camps. It was hard to slog through this stuff to get to the larger point, if there is one.

Perhaps there are some Oedipal/Elektra issues derived from the inculcatoin of Communist ideals from his parents underlying his radicalism. I guess I'd be ticked off too if my parents indoctrinated me so thoroughly into a failed ideology.

**For some reason, the powers that be decided to edit out the first 3 paragraphs of this review, which discussed Horowitz's prior book, Native Son, which describes his upbringing in a Communist household and early life as a radical leftist and subsequent metamorphosis into an equally rabid conservative, in favorable terms. The purpose was to illuminate Horowitz's penchant to wildly extremist views whether they be from the right or left. Why Amazon thought that was not germane to a review of this book -- the principal flaw of which is the lack of any balance or perspective -- is strange indeed. How can you excerpt all political content from the review of a book which is, itself, 100% political. More importantly, why would you bother?