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DESTRUCTIVE GENERATION: Second Thoughts About the '60s Paperback – August 12, 1996

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Publisher : Free Press; 1st edition (August 12, 1996)
Language : English
Paperback : 400 pages
ISBN-10 : 0684826410
ISBN-13 : 978-0684826417
Item Weight : 1.12 pounds
Dimensions : 5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches

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cacoethes scribendi

You won't be able to put this down

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2012

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This book - really, a collection of long essays - is absolutely excellent. Both Horowitz and Collier contribute to the thorough, wholly honest assessments of the personal and political damage wrought by this truly destructive generation. The most riveting chapters, in my view, are those on Fay Stender, Huey Newton, the Weather Underground, their radical chic trip to Nicaragua, and both Peter and David's separate autobiographical essays.

They should be commended for their candor, integrity and virtue.

And as a sidenote, it is a real shame that it was Diana Oughton and not the disgusting Bill Ayers who got blown up in the 1970 Greenwich townhouse explosion.

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Martin Asiner

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Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2009

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For those today who think that the decade of the 60s was little more than the flower power of Woodstock, DESTRUCTIVE GENERATION is a sorely needed bucket of cold water wake up call. Even for those who grew up then, there is an understandable tendency to wax nostalgic about the key events that authors David Horowitz and Peter Collier describe. Most Americans then were not the flaming leftist Berkeley radicals that Horowitz and Collier truly were. Most were the garden variety college kids simply trying to balance this week's accounting exam with yesterday's news flash of yet another atrocity in Vietnam. Horowitz and Collier were right there up close and personal. They interacted directly and often with the "A" list of leftist stars: Tom Hayden, Huey Newton, Mark Rudd, William Ayers, and many others. Their own world view was admittedly enough identical with what they would later term "destructive" but at the time they saw as "progressive" or "inevitable." For them the sixties were a time of an unfolding of a one world view of government, one that was based on each according to his needs, each according to his talent. Had they then had a crystal ball that could have allowed them to peer into the future to see a recently elected socialist American president try to convince the heads of Europe that America was now ready to repudiate its imperialist past to embrace the mighty wave of socialism that will then envelop the world, they would have shouted in a paroxysm of orgiastic pleasure. But that was Horowitz and Collier of the sixties. They have changed--their erstwhile comrades have not. In DESTRUCTIVE GENERATION, they outline why they have while their leftist, socialist, communist, anarchist associates had not. The answer, they suggest, has a great deal to do with the inevitable pain that occurs when one is faced with the Hard Truth that often collides with a Lovely Theory of life.

As I read this text of their inner voyage of morality, I could sense that their movement from left to right was truly as difficult as they claimed. Indeed, it can never be an easy thing to repudiate one's life's calling. But just as the tide can erode away even the strongest rock, so can socialist excesses and lies unseat even long held dogma. In this book and in others of a similar ilk, Horowitz outlines the how and the why of such a change. He and lifelong friend and co-editor Peter Collier provide a snapshop of events behind the headlines. Where a college kid would hang a poster of a gun-toting Black Panther on his college dorm wall to show his coolness, Horowitz and Collier show the flip side of that poster, behind which lurks a monstrosity of evil, paranoia, and thuggishness that one would not believe even if one were right there as they were. The trick to sweeping away Dorothy's curtain and exposing the evil grinning Wizard is to look inward even as one looks outward. Outward events are those that one sees on the media. often in carefully spun sound bites. Inward events are those that cause one to evaluate outward events for what we now call veracity, believability, and just plain common sense. It took Horowitz and Collier decades to distinguish the two. For readers of DESTRUCTIVE GENERATION who did not grow up then but are now involved in assessing the same issues that consumed the authors, the ability to call things by their rightful names is far more important than smoking some weed as one gazes on a poster that promises a too ready solution to a non-existent problem.

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DAVID GROESBECK

CHILLING & INSIGHTFUL,BUT...

Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2010

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Having lived through the '60's as a college student,I was profoundly affected by it. Like Mr.Horowitz,I began having second thoughts & reevaluating my political opinions as I became older & became exposed to previously undisclosed information. I do admire Mr. Horowitz's candor & self disclosure greatly,but I can't help but feel that much of his vitriol directed toward that decade (& after) reflect his sense of personal betrayal by communism & socialism. This is understandable but unfortunate as it exposes his insights to dismissal by critics as psychological reaction formation-to use an outdated Freudian construction. A very valid criticism,I feel, is his lack of documentation & a biblography. He extensively uses undocumented quotes to bolster his conclusions. Also he fails to acknowledge many valid criticisms of that era's issues. He fails,for example, to acknowledge that we lost 58,000 men in a "police action" and that he coincidentally was not subject to the draft due to the fact that he married young & fathered 4 children. No harm,no foul per se,but the families of the young fallen soldiers & airmen certainly earned the right to protest without being accused of nacent communists sympathies. That said,this is a very important & thought provoking book written by a man who was in the thick of what he describes.

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Karen

Great read!!!

Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2017

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Highly interesting!!!

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Debbie Forbeck

Excellent information - David Horowitz is my new favorite author

Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2012

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I'm reading all the things I can written by David Horowitz - a voice of sanity and candor. He should be required reading for our students - both high school and college.

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ron simmons

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2015

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It reminds me of why I lean to the right.

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Bernard Chapin

The Real Sixties.

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2004

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These essays are priceless and they tell a tale that many have never heard. We are presented with the personal impacts of radicalism on human relationships and also on communities that sponsor it. Progressivism and its sympathizers practically imploded the city of Berkeley and still exert a noxious influence upon that locality today. The life of Fay Stender, a lawyer/groupie of the Black Panthers, teaches the reader just how much ideological blindness can bring a person down. The Weatherman Underground is given its own (pathetic) chapter length treatment. Believe me, you'll be horrified by the specifics of their pseudo-struggle and laugh when you discover that they viewed sex as being an ideological statement. The anti-Americanism of the New Left has long been denied but Horowitz and Collier reveal much about them that has been hidden by the sixties. If you're appalled by what the country's become, read this back and learn the causation of our cultural decline.

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