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Summary: A great Collection of episodes. Needs more editing
Review: The Second Thoughts series is an excellent collection of insightful and damning articles. David Horowitz and Peter Collier are the Emmanual Goldstien of the New Left, except that they are truly damning to the regime.However,Destructive Generation : Second Thoughts About the Sixties is only a collection. While it has an introduction, I believe that more analysis would have been useful to tie the episodes together. I suggest that any fan go to their websight.
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Summary: Explains how the Democratic Party got to be the way it is!
Review: The seeds planted in the Sixties are in full bloom today, and this extraordinary book illustrates just how our current messed-up values got to be accepted as "politically correct" thinking. Many of the 60's radicals documented in this book are today highly respected members in our body politic, and it's almost scary to think they still harbor that same destructive leftist ideology under a modern veneer of centrist-Clintonism.
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Summary: The Real Sixties.
Review: 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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Summary: Excellent, but don't give up your grain of salt.
Review: This book is exceptional and unique, in that it does honestly look back at the furthest fringe of the '60s left wing, even at the writers' own expense. "Destructive Generation" is strongest when it sticks with the facts: The Black Panthers, The Weather Underground, Berkeley. It gets a little shaky when it veers into sweeping statements for an entire movement (yes, I'm sure that there were many agents for Moscow in the hierarchy, but many at the base of the pyramid truly believed in what they were doing ... particularly if it was stopping an illegal war in Indochina). The information on 1980s Central America is chilling and worth the price of admission. No matter what your political beliefs may be, though, it is well worth reading, and will definitely not leave you quickly.
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Summary: Excellent, but don't give up your grain of salt.
Review: This book is exceptional and unique, in that it does honestly look back at the furthest fringe of the '60s left wing, even at the writers' own expense. "Destructive Generation" is strongest when it sticks with the facts: The Black Panthers, The Weather Underground, Berkeley. It gets a little shaky when it veers into sweeping statements for an entire movement (yes, I'm sure that there were many agents for Moscow in the hierarchy, but many at the base of the pyramid truly believed in what they were doing ... particularly if it was stopping an illegal war in Indochina). The information on 1980s Central America is chilling and worth the price of admission. No matter what your political beliefs may be, though, it is well worth reading, and will definitely not leave you quickly.
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Summary: A jaudiced look at an era.
Review: What the authors miss is that the "revolution" got us out of a stupid, murderous war, got us to accept people of color as humans, caused a backlash against corrupt police and FBI. Made the world a better place. Were the "leaders" sexually immoral and driven by ego? No argument there, but our so-called leaders in Washington are not unlike the characters that lead political activism in the sixties. Except they do nothing but keep the status quo.
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