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David Joel Horowitz (born January 10, 1939) is an American conservative writer and activist. He is a founder and president of the right-wing David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC); editor of the Center's website FrontPage Magazine; and director of Discover the Networks, a website that tracks individuals and groups on the political left. Horowitz also founded the organization Students for Academic Freedom. Horowitz wrote several books with author Peter Collier, including four on prominent 20th-century American families. He and Collier have collaborated on books about cultural criticism. Horowitz worked as a columnist for Salon. From 1956 to 1975, Horowitz was an outspoken adherent of the New Left. He later rejected progressive ideas and became a defender of neoconservatism. Horowitz recounted his ideological journey in a series of retrospective books, culminating with his 1996 memoir Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey. Family Born in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Queens, a borough of New York City, Horowitz is the son of Jewish high school teachers Phil and Blanche Horowitz. His father taught English and his mother taught stenography. His mother's family emigrated from Imperial Russia in the mid-19th century, and his father's family left Russia in 1905 during a time of anti-Jewish pogroms. Horowitz's paternal grandfather lived in Mozir, a city in modern Belarus, prior to leaving for the U.S. In 1940, the family moved to the Long Island City section of Queens. During years of labor organizing and the Great Depression, Phil and Blanche Horowitz were long-standing members of the American Communist Party and strong supporters of Joseph Stalin. They left the party after Khrushchev published his report in 1956 about the crimes Stalin committed and terrorism against the Soviet population. Horowitz received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in 1959, majoring in English, and a master's degree in English literature at University of California, Berkeley. Career New Left After completing his graduate degree, Horowitz lived in London during the mid 1960s and worked for the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. He identified as a Marxist intellectual. In 1966, Ralph Schoenman persuaded Bertrand Russell to convene his war crimes tribunal to judge United States involvement in the Vietnam War. Horowitz would write three decades later that he had political reservations about the tribunal and did not take part. He described the tribunal's judges as formidable, world-famous and radical. They included Isaac Deutscher, Jean-Paul Sartre, Stokely Carmichael, Simone de Beauvoir, Vladimir Dedijer and James Baldwin. In January 1966, Horowitz, along with members of the Trotskyist International Marxist Group, formed the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign. The Vietnam Solidarity Campaign organized a series of protests in London against British support for the Vietnam War. While in London, Horowitz became a close friend of Deutscher, and wrote a biography of him. Horowitz wrote The Free World Colossus: A Critique of American Foreign Policy in the Cold War. In January 1968, Horowitz returned to the United States, where he became co-editor of the New Left magazine Ramparts, settling in northern California. During the early 1970s, Horowitz developed a close friendship with Huey P. Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party. Horowitz later portrayed Newton as equal parts gangster, terrorist, intellectual and media celebrity. As part of their work together, Horowitz helped raise money for, and assisted the Panthers with, the running of a school for poor children in Oakland. He recommended that Newton hire Betty Van Patter as bookkeeper; she was then working for Ramparts. In December 1974, Van Patter's body was found floating in San Francisco Harbor; she had been murdered. It is widely believed that the Panthers were responsible for her murder, a belief also held by Horowitz. In 1976, Horowitz was a "founding sponsor" of James Weinstein's magazine In These Times. Rightward evolution Following this period, Horowitz rejected Marx and socialism, but kept quiet about his changing politics for nearly a decade. In early 1985, Horowitz and Collier, who also became a political conservative, wrote an article for The Washington Post Magazine entitled "Lefties for Reagan", later retitled as "Goodbye to All That". The article explained their change of views and recent decision to vote for a second term for Republican President Ronald Reagan. In 1986, Horowitz published "Why I Am No Longer a Leftist" in The Village Voice. In 1987, Horowitz co-hosted a "Second Thoughts Conference" in Washington, D.C., described by Sidney Blumenthal in The Washington Post as his "coming out" as a conservative. In May 1989, Horowitz, Ronald Radosh, and Collier attended a conference in Kraków calling for the end of Communism. After marching with Polish dissidents in an anti-regime protest, Horowitz spoke about his changing thoughts and why he believed that socialism could not create their future. He said his dream was for the people of Poland to be free. In 1992, Horowitz and Collier founded Heterodoxy, a monthly magazine focused on exposing what it described as excessive political correctness on United States college and university campuses. It was "meant to have the feel of a samizdat publication inside the gulag of the PC [politically correct] university". The tabloid was directed at university students, whom Horowitz viewed as indoctrinated by the entrenched Left. In Radical Son, he wrote that universities were no longer effective in presenting both sides of political arguments. He stated that left-wing professors had created an atmosphere of political "terror" on campuses. In a 2001 column in Salon he described his opposition to reparations for slavery, calling it racism against blacks, as it defined them only in terms of their descent from slaves. He argued that applying labels like "descendants of slaves" to blacks was damaging and would serve to segregate them from mainstream society. In the same year during Black History Month, Horowitz attempted to purchase advertising space in several American university student publications to express his opposition to reparations. Many student papers refused to sell him ad space; at some schools, papers that carried his ads were stolen or destroyed. Walsh said the furor had given Horowitz an overwhelming amount of free publicity. In 2005, Horowitz launched Discover the Networks. Horowitz appeared in Occupy Unmasked, a 2012 documentary portraying the Occupy Wall Street movement as a sinister organization formed to violently destroy the American government. In 2018, Horowitz attracted many critical comments by attacking the Equal Justice Initiative's new National Memorial for Peace and Justice, calling it "a real racist project" showing "anti-white racism". "Lynchings were bad but they weren't mainly about whites yanking blacks off the streets and stringing them up". "A third of th.... Discover the David Horowitz popular books. Find the top 100 most popular David Horowitz books.
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The Other Side of Night
Adam HamdyFor fans of Matt Haig and Anthony Horowitz, a “strange, compelling, and ultimately moving headspinner of a novel” (John Connolly) in which the lives of a disgraced police officer, ...
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Exit Right
Daniel OppenheimerA provocative look at the evolution of America’s political soul through the lives of six political figures who abandoned the left and joined the right“thoughtful…engaging…political...
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Nina and the Magical Carnival
Madhvi RamaniNina has to take part in the school talent show in a few days, and she still doesn’t know what to do!When her teacher mentions a magical fantasia that could help, Nina sets off to ...
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Mortality and Faith
David HorowitzMortality and Faith is the second half of an autobiography of David Horowitz whose first installment, Radical Son, was published more than twenty years ago. It completes ...
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The Enemy Within
David Horowitz“The Enemy Within is a book for all patriots who understand that our country is in a fight for its life.”MARK LEVINAmerica on the BrinkA questionable election. The president o...
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Murder
Arthur Conan Doyle‘Well, Watson, we seem to have fallen upon evil days’Sherlock Holmes: the quintessential British hero and the world's most popular detective. Through his powers of deduction, and w...
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Truth or Dare
M. J. ArlidgeEVERY CRIME IS CONNECTED.BUT WHO IS PULLING THE STRINGS?THE CHILLING THRILLER FROM THE MIND OF MILLIONCOPY BESTSELLER M. J. ARLIDGEA crimewave sweeps through the city and noone is ...
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The Black Book of the American Left
David HorowitzDavid Horowitz spent the first part of his life in the world of the Communistprogressive left, a politics he inherited from his mother and father, and later in the New Left as one ...
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Trust No One
Anthony MosawiMy name is Sara Eden, and this is all I can remember . . . There are government agents pursuing me. They think I know something they want. They will never stop. I could be a dange...
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Stark Mad Abolitionists
Robert K. Sutton & Bob DoleA town at the center of the United States becomes the site of an ongoing struggle for freedom and equality.In May, 1854, Massachusetts was in an uproar. A judge, bound by the Fugit...
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A Killing Winter
Tom Callaghan'Even better than Child 44. Akyl Borubaev is a terrific creation' Anthony HorowitzTHE KYRGYZ WINTER REMINDS US THAT THE PAST IS NEVER DEAD, SIMPLY WAITING TO AMBUSH US AROUND THE N...
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T.J. and the Hat-trick
Theo WalcottTJ is a new boy at Parkview School and he's never played in a proper football match before, but he soon makes friends with a bunch of footballmad kids.The trouble is, none of t...
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Cat And Mouse
M. J. ArlidgeIF YOU THINK YOU'RE ALONE:THINK AGAIN A scratching at the window.A tap on the door.What if, this time, someone is out there? A silent killer stalks the city, targeting those home ...
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The Unwanted Dead
Chris Lloyd'A gripping murder mystery and a vivid recreation of Paris under German Occupation.' ANDREW TAYLORWINNER OF THE HWA GOLD CROWN AWARD FOR BEST HISTORICAL FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE ...
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Nina and the Kung-Fu Adventure
Madhvi RamaniNina’s schoolfriend Lee is in trouble, so she must borrow her aunt’s travelling spice shed and head to Beijing. Now they are both on a great adventure involving a kung fu master, a...
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Justice for All
Greg KellyNewsmax TV anchor and WABC Radio host Greg Kelly delivers a stirring defense of American law enforcement and a warning about what happens when they are defunded and derided.As the ...
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Two On the Aisle
David A. HorowitzTwo on the Aisle: A Judaic American Tale of Romance and Creative Dreams, is a biography of the author’s parents, Nathan and Dorothy Horowitz, as well as a twentieth century America...
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The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases
Arthur Conan Doyle'He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson ... He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each ...
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Work Remotely
Anastasia Tohmé & Martin WörnerRemote working makes us happier, more productive and more profitable, but it can bring its own set of challenges. How do we manage our worklife balance; communicate and collaborate...
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Betrayal
Stewart Binns'Brilliant. An explosive thriller with true authenticity' Tom Marcus, bestselling author of Soldier Spy January, 1981. They're undercover in Belfast.Determined to put an end to a w...
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A Christmas Carol
Charles DickensCurl up with ultimate beloved Christmas classic!'Bah! Humbug!'Mr Scrooge is a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, miserable old man. Nobody stops him in the street...
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A Spring Betrayal
Tom Callaghan'Even better than Child 44. Akyl Borubaev is a terrific creation' Anthony HorowitzWE UNCOVERED THE LAST OF THE BODIES IN THE RED HOUR BEFORE DUSK, AS THE SUN STAINED THE SNOWCAPS O...
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The Girls Inside
NJ MackayA gripping, compelling psychological thriller about a cult, a fire, and the dark secrets that four young girls have carried with them but can no longer keep buried...Blue grew up i...
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The Black Book of the American Left
David HorowitzDavid Horowitz spent the first part of his life in the world of the Communistprogressive left, a politics he inherited from his mother and father, and later in the New Left as one ...
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Buried
Elle CroftYou're trapped underground with a serial killer.Would you save their life to protect your own?The ArtistNo one knows who The Sculptor is. A successful artist, whose works sell for ...
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Riceyman Steps
Arnold BennettIn the work that has been judged the finest of his later novels, (printed here in Bennett's corrected version) Arnold Bennett gives us an unfogettable portrait of a miser and his w...
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Conservatism
Yoram HazonyThe idea that American conservatism is identical to "classical" liberalismwidely held since the 1960sis seriously mistaken. The awardwinning political theorist Yoram Hazony ar...
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How to Build a Billion Dollar App
George BerkowskiTHE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO BUILDING AN APPBASED BUSINESS 'A must read for anyone who wants to start a mobile app business' Riccardo Zacconi, founder and CEO King Digital (maker of Candy...
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Masquerade
Tivadar Soros, Humphrey Tonkin, George Soros & Paul SorosThe Nazis came late to Hungary because, until early 1944, Germany and Hungary were allies. But when they did arrive, their orders were to put the “Final Solution” into effect with ...
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The Book of David
Ralph E. BuntynFor 10 years, author Ralph Buntyn spent many hours with renowned United Nations correspondent and United Israel founder David Horowitz. They engaged in lengthy discussions ab...