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Destructive Generation by Peter Collier

Destructive Generation

Second Thoughts About the Sixties

Peter Collier, David Horowitz

Encounter Books · Print & ebook · December 1, 2005

As leading New Leftists in the Sixties, Peter Collier and David Horowitz were intimately involved in the radicalism of the day.

Social History20th-Century HistoryRadical Politics
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Radical Politics, 20th-Century History, Social History
Published
Encounter Books, December 1, 2005

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As leading New Leftists in the Sixties, Peter Collier and David Horowitz were intimately involved in the radicalism of the day. Later on, they became the first of their generation to publicly reject the objectives of that revolutionary era and point out the cultural chaos it had left behind. Part memoir, part political analysis, part social history, DESTRUCTIVE GENERATION is the compelling story of their intellectual journey into and out of the radical trenches.

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Telling stories of the New Left's most famous (and infamous) personalities and events, Collier and Horowitz reveal the destructive legacy of the Sixties and the way in which that decade continues to cast a long shadow over politics and culture today. When it was first published more than a decade ago, DESTRUCTIVE GENERATION was a controversial bestseller that some critics compared to Whittaker Chambers' powerful political testament, WITNESS. This new edition contains new material which makes this classic work more relevant than ever in our own divided time.

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Radical Politics49%
Social History46%
20th-Century History32%

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  • 20th-Century History
Authors
Peter Collier, David Horowitz
Publisher
Encounter Books
Published
December 1, 2005
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
20th-Century History