David Horowitz

David Horowitz, born in Forest Hills, New York, on January 10,1939, is a neoconservative American writer and social activist.

Table of contents

1 Early Life 2 Education 3 Intellectual Developement 4 Notable Articles 5 Books 6 Quote 7 External Links

Early Life

His parents Phil and Blanche Horowitz were schoolteachers in Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, New York City. They raised him in a strict Stalinist environment. After Nikita Khrushchev's secret report to the 20th Party Congress on Joseph Stalin's crimes became publicly known, Horowitz helped form the New Left—a break with the earlier Communist Party USA. Horowitz became a Marxist supporter of the various leftist causes of the 1960s and 1970s. As the years went on however, Horowitz became very disillusioned with some of the tactics of the American Left, especially after the Black Panthers murdered one of his close friends, Betty Van Patter, in 1974.

Education

• Columbia University Undergraduate studies
• University of California, Berkeley Master’s degree in English literature

Intellectual Developement

Horowitz's thinking began to slowly get more conservative, and today he has come full circle and is now regarded as a leading right wing advocate. This transition from a left-wing to a right-wing position is shared in common with many other neoconservatives.

Notable Articles

• "A Radical’s Disenchantment", The Nation, December 8, 1979

Books

He has written many books and pamphlets, including The Free World Colossus: A Critique of American Foreign Policy in the Cold War (1971), Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey (1998 ISBN 0684840057), his autobiography; Uncivil Wars : The Controversy Over Reparations For Slavery (2002 ISBN 1893554449); Hating Whitey; The Politics of Bad Faith and Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey, (2003 ISBN 1890626511). Together with Peter Collier he wrote several best-selling biographies of prominent American families:

• The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty (1976)
• The Kennedys: An American Drama (1985)
• The Fords: An American Epic (1987)
• The Roosevelts: An American Saga (1994)

Quote

Real human flesh and blood had been sacrificed on the altar of utopian ideals. A collusive silence had followed.

Concerning Betty Van Patter's murder from Jamie Glazov's introduction to Left Illusions

External Links

• David Horowitz's Long March by Scott Sherman in The Nation
• http://www.frontpagemag.com - online neoconservative magazine edited by Horowitz
• FrontPage magazine.com About Horowitz