The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America

by David Horowitz

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26 ratings, 3.15 average rating, 10 reviews (more data...)

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February 13th 2006 by Regnery Publishing, Inc.

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Hardcover, 450 pages

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0895260034 (isbn13: 9780895260031)

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"We all know that left-wing radicals from the 1960s have hung around academia and hired people like themselves. But if you thought they were all …more

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Feb 17, 2009

Mike rated it:

I promise to give this 5 stars if Horowitz puts me in it. I've got the credentials, man! I once tongue-kissed William Ayers in a closet, during a make-out party.

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Jul 08, 2007

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These professors apparently were hired to teach students grassroots politics. I think this is a good idea because, students need to hear all angles about any issue. I like this book. It gave me something to think about. I am not ultra liberal nor ultra conservative. I am in the middle.

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Mar 06, 2007

mehran memarzadeh rated it:

David Horowitz was born in 1939 to a Jewish family in Forest Hills, New York. His parents, Phil and Blanche Horowitz, were school-teachers in Sunnyside Gardens, in the borough of Queens in New York City. Horowitz attended Columbia University and later the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a master's degree in English literature.

His parents were long-standing members of the Communist Party. While still identifying as a Marxist, Horowitz, along with many other left ...more David Horowitz was born in 1939 to a Jewish family in Forest Hills, New York. His parents, Phil and Blanche Horowitz, were school-teachers in Sunnyside Gardens, in the borough of Queens in New York City. Horowitz attended Columbia University and later the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a master's degree in English literature.

His parents were long-standing members of the Communist Party. While still identifying as a Marxist, Horowitz, along with many other left wing figures of his generation, sought to distance itself from totalitarian regimes such as Soviet Union. Horowitz was employed during the 1960s as a political aide to Bertrand Russell.[1] Horowitz at this time was a close friend and associate of the Marxist historian, Isaac Deutscher. Horowitz wrote a biography of Deutscher in 1971.

After returning to the U.S. in 1968, he authored several books that were influential in New Left critiques of American society and particularly its foreign policy, including The Free World Colossus: A Critique of American Foreign Policy in the Cold War. Horowitz was an editor at the influential New Left magazine, Ramparts.

Horowitz was a confidant of Black Panthers leader Huey P. Newton, and provided legal and financial assistance to the black revolutionary organization. He would later cite experiences with his involvement in the Panthers as the primary catalyst for reassessing his views. In December of 1974, his close friend Betty Van Patter, a bookkeeper for the Panthers, was murdered. While the case officially went unsolved, Horowitz has maintained that the Panthers were responsible for her murder, committed in order to silence Van Patter from revealing the organization's financial corruption, and thereafter covered up the killing.

Other events that Horowitz cites as being influential in his political realignment were the impacts of the US loss in the Vietnam War on the peoples of Indochina, and particularly Cambodia, which under the leadership of the Khmer Rouge experienced mass terror and famine, leading to millions of deaths. Horowitz believes that the far left turned a blind eye to such atrocities because the ideological vision of the Communists was one which they shared. The reactions ranged from disinterest to apologia, exemplified by George Hildebrand and Gareth Porter's Cambodia: Starvation and Revolution, which presented a much more favorable depiction of life under the Khmer Rouge than later came to be accepted.

Along with close associate Peter Collier (political author), Horowitz hosted a 1987 "Second Thoughts Conference" in Washington, D.C., described by left-wing figure Sidney Blumenthal in The Washington Post as his "coming out" as a supporter of the right. His gradual shift to the right has been recounted in a series of memoirs and retrospectives, culminating in Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey, published in 1996.

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Jul 02, 2009

Steven Salaita rated it:

Horowitz is a total underachiever. There are lots of dangerous academics in America. He short shrifted hundreds of perfectly menacing radicals, inciters, traitors, and terrorist-lovers shrewdly disguised in tweed jackets and unmatched socks. It's because of this sort of laziness that America is furtively being ruined by your British Modernism 401 professor.

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Feb 25, 2010

Agitatus rated it:

Read in February, 2008

Incredible volume of facts and scary people. Makes you want to turn in your degree and go to school somewhere else.

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Mar 01, 2008

Moses rated it:

Read in March, 2008

This was a simply okay book, and I expected better. I think Horowitz's later book, "Indoctrination U" was much better and made this one a little obsolete. Plus, it was slightly tedious and all the professors seemed about the same.

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