Destructive Generation (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Collier
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Current affairs
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: The United States, particularly the West Coast
- Principal Characters: Peter Collier, David Horowitz, Eldridge Cleaver, Huey Newton, George Jackson, Fay Stender, Noam Chomsky, Steve Bosshard, Luther Brock, Billy Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Diana Oughton, Kathy Boudin, Cathy Wilkerson
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Social action, 1960’s, Suicide, Vietnam War, Politicians, Liberalism, Free love
- Locales: West (U.S.)
In a presentation copy of Through the Looking-Glass (l871), Lewis Caroll wrote a brief note and his signature in mirror image, a nice metaphor to keep in mind when reading Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties. Peter Collier and David Horowitz were members of the New Left in the 1960’s; in the 1980’s they are Cold War warriors of the avenging Right. They have faced their past from the other side of the mirror, but they have forsaken none of the arrogance and self-righteousness that once made them anathema to the besieged forces of racism and...
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