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David Horowitz was one of the founders of the New Left in the 1960s and an editor of its largest magazine,Ramparts. He is the author, with Peter Collier, of three best selling dynastic biographies: The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty (1976); The Kennedys: An American Dream (1984); and The Fords: An American Epic (1987). Looking back in anger at their days in the New Left, he and Collier wrote Destructive Generation (1989), a chronicle of their second thoughts about the 60s that has been compared to Whittaker Chambers’ Witness and other classic works documenting a break from totalitarianism. Horowitz examined this subject more closely inRadical Son (1996), a memoir tracing his odyssey from “red-diaper baby” to conservative activist that George Gilder described as “the first great autobiography of his generation.”

Horowitz continued his chronicle of the consequences of radical politics in The Politics of Bad Faith (2000),Hating Whitey (2000), Left Illusions (2003), and The Party of Defeat (2008). His Art of Political War (2000) was described by White House political strategist Karl Rove as “the perfect guide to winning on the political battlefield.” Unholy Alliance (2004) was a prophetic work pioneering the view that the Islamo Fascists are working hand in glove with the secular left.

In 1988, Horowitz created the Center for the Study of Popular Culture (CSPC) — renamed by its board of directors the David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC) in July 2006 — to institutionalize his campaigns against the Left and its anti-Americanism. The DHFC’s mission is to defend the principles of individual freedom, the rule of law, private property, and limited government. It further seeks to defend free societies in the war against their enemies, and to reestablish academic freedom in American schools. The DHFC is supported by 100,000 contributors and publishes FrontPageMagazine.com, an online magazine featuring articles on “the war at home and abroad,” which receives approximately a million visitors per month. Another DHFC website,DiscoverTheNetworks.org, is an encyclopedia of the political Left and its networks.

Horowitz has devoted much of his attention over the past several years to the radicalization of the American university In 2003, he launched an academic freedom campaign to return the American university to traditional principles of open inquiry and to halt indoctrination in the classroom. To further these goals he devised an Academic Bill of Rights to protect students from abusive professors. In the same year Horowitz founded Students for Academic Freedom (SAF), which now has chapters on 200 college campuses. Asserting that, “You can’t get a good education if they’re only telling you half the story,” Horowitz called for inquiries into political bias in the hiring of faculty and the appointment of commencement speakers.

In three years Horowitz’s campaign for academic freedom was able to make intellectual diversity and academic freedom front-burner issues on college campuses across the country. In June 2005, in direct response to his campaign, the American Council on Education, which represents 2000 colleges and universities, called on its members to create grievance procedures for students who were politically harassed by their professors. In July 2005 the Pennsylvania House of Representatives voted 111-87 to create a Select Committee on Academic Freedom, which then held hearings throughout the state, which lasted until June 2006. On July 19, 2006, the Temple University board of trustees adopted a new policy, which gave students academic freedom rights – the first university to do so.

Horowitz has chronicled the radicalization of the American university and the way indoctrination has replaced education in four books: Uncivil Wars (2003); The Professors: the 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America(2006); Indoctrination U. (2008); and most recently One Party Classroom (2009).

Cultural critic Camille Paglia has said of David Horowitz: “I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America’s most original and courageous political analysts. . . . As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz’s spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.”

Norman Podhoretz, former editor of Commentary magazine, says of Horowitz: “He differs from some of the other ‘second-thoughts’ generation in having pulled no punches and in having broken more decisively than some of them with left-wing pieties — whether liberal or socialist. . . . David Horowitz is hated by the Left because he is not only an apostate but has been even more relentless and aggressive in attacking his former political allies than some of us who preceded him in what I once called ‘breaking ranks’ with that world. He has also taken the polemical and organizational techniques he learned in his days on the left, and figured out how to use them against the Left, whose vulnerabilities he knows in his bones. (That he is such a good writer and speaker doesn’t hurt, either.) In fact, he has done so much, and in so many different ways, that one might be justified in suspecting that ‘David Horowitz’ is actually more than one person.”

Henry Mark Holzer, a libertarian lawyer who has represented Soviet dissidents fleeing Communism for freedom in the West, has given expression to sentiments shared by many of Horowitz’s supporters among conservatives: “I don’t say loosely that someone is a hero. But in my view, David Horowitz fits the definition of that term. He is a man who has stood up, and for a long time stood up alone, for his values.”

David Horowitz has spoken at over 300 colleges and universities and continues to visit more than 30 campuses a year. He has appeared on Nightline, Crossfire, Today, Hannity and Colmes, the O’Reilly Factor, Good Morning America, C-SPAN, CNBC, Fox News Channel and MSNBC. He gives hundreds of interviews yearly on radio and television.

EDUCATION

BA English l96l (cum laude) UC Berkeley.

MA English l963 UC Berkeley.

TEACHING

l963-69–Instructor in Freshman English, UC Berkeley.

l966–Instructor in English, University of San Francisco.

l964–Professor of English, Miles College, Birmingham, Alabama.

l967–Instructor in Sociology, UC Santa Cruz.

l977-83–Visiting Writer, UC Berkeley.

EDITORIAL

1967-73–Editor, Ramparts Magazine

l982-85–Consulting Editor, California Magazine

1992-2000—Editor, Heterodoxy

ADMINISTRATIVE

1986-91—Co-director, Second Thoughts Project, Washington D.C. (Organized a movement of former New Leftists who had “second thoughts” after a decade and a half of commitment to the “revolution” of the 60s; set up campus appearances across the county for this group; debated spokesmen for the Left before university audiences; published a newsletter, Second Thoughts; traveled to Nicaragua for the State Department to inspire the “civic resistance” to defy the Sandinistas; organized “Second Thoughts Conference” in Washington D.C in 1987, followed by “Second Thoughts about Race” in the same city, and “Second Thoughts about the 60s and Totalitarianism” in Poland in 1989.)

1992-97—Vice President, Center for the Study of Popular Culture, Los Angeles, California.  (Did corporate planning; designed, edited and published a monthly magazine,Heterodoxy, and two quarterlies, The Defender and The Report Card; edited a series of books and pamphlets, including Deconstructing the Left and Stranger than Fact; set up subscription, sales and distribution systems; wrote direct mail and did personal fund raising; organized two conferences on the role of Hollywood and Hollywood politics in American life; appeared in speaking engagements at campuses across the country.)

1998-2006–Publisher and President, Encounter Books.

WRITINGS

Articles in New York Times, Washington Post, Reader’s Digest, The Public Interest, Commentary, Weekly Standard, The National Review, The American Spectator, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Playboy, Wall Street Journal, etc.

Short fiction in Triquarterly, Canto, Seattle Review, etc.

Books (fiction)

Downriver: A Novel (Holt, Rinehart–1978)

The King’s Giraffe with Mary Collier (Simon and Schuster–1995).

Books (nonfiction):

When Shall They Rest: A History of the Cherokee People (Holt, Rinehart–1972)

The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty (Holt, Rinehart–l976)

The Kennedys: An American Drama (Simon and Schuster–1984)

The Fords: An American Epic (Simon and Schuster–1987)

Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts about the Sixties (Simon and Schuster–1989)

The Fondas: A Hollywood Dynasty (G.P Putnam’s–1990)\

Second Thoughts: Former Radicals Look Back at the Sixties (Madison–1991)

The Roosevelts: An American Saga (Simon and Schuster–1994);

Medal of Honor (Workman Publishers–2004)

Film Scripts:

“Shades of Gray: the Life and Death of Fay Stender” (1990);

“Cowboy Days,” the story of Theodore Roosevelt in the West (1997).

Television Documentaries

Executive Producer for “Campus Battleground,” funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting as part of its “America at the Crossroads” and shown nationally on PBS in 2007.

PUBLISHING HIGHLIGHTS

Three books (The Rockefellers, The Kennedys, The Roosevelts) main selections Book of the Month Club. Two books (Downriver, The Fondas) featured alternates. Nominated for the National Book Award (The Rockefellers) and the Pulitzer (The Kennedys).  The Rockefellers on the NYT best seller list for 16 weeks.  The Kennedys on the NYT best seller list for 22 weeks.

Called by the New York Times, “America’s premier biographer of dynastic tragedy.”

Books translated into 13 languages.

HONORS

1979–Fellow, National Endowment of the Arts

1980–State Department Lecturer Abroad in Scandinavia

1987–State Department Lecturer Abroad in Nicaragua

1998–State Department Lecturer Abroad in Italy

ROBERT SPENCER is the director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the author of nine books on Islam and jihad, including the New York Times bestsellers The Truth About Muhammad and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades). Spencer is a weekly columnist for Human Eventsand FrontPage Magazine, and has led seminars on Islam and jihad for the United States Central Command, United States Army Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Group, the FBI, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the U.S. intelligence community.

Spencer has also written eleven monographs and well over three hundred articles about jihad and Islamic terrorism. Along with the bestsellers The Truth About Muhammad(Regnery) and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) (Regnery), he is the author of Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World’s Fastest Growing Faith (Encounter); Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West (Regnery); Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t (Regnery), a refutation of moral equivalence and call for all the beneficiaries and heirs of Judeo-Christian Western civilization, whatever their own religious or philosophical perspective may be, to defend it from the global jihad; and Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs (Regnery), an expose of how jihadist groups are advancing their agenda in the U.S. today by means other than terrorist attacks.. He is coauthor, with Daniel Ali, of Inside Islam: A Guide for Catholics (Ascension), and editor of the essay collection The Myth of Islamic Tolerance: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims (Prometheus). His latest book isThe Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran (Regnery). Spencer’s books have been translated into many languages, including Spanish, Italian, Finnish, and Bahasa Indonesia.

Along with his weekly columns, Spencer has completed a weekly Qur’an commentary at Jihad Watch, Blogging the Qur’an, which has been translated into Czech, Danish, German and Italian. He is an Associate Fellow of the American Freedom Alliance and a contributing writer to Steven Emerson’s Investigative Project on Terrorism. His articles on Islam and other topics have appeared in the New York Post, theWashington Times, the Dallas Morning News, Canada’s National Post, Middle East Quarterly, WorldNet Daily, First Things, Insight in the News, National Review Online, and many other journals.

In addition to the seminars on Islam and jihad that Spencer has led for the United States Central Command, United States Army Command and General Staff College, a Department of Homeland Security task force, the FBI, branches of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the U.S. intelligence community, he has discussed jihad, Islam, and terrorism at a workshop sponsored by the U.S. State Department and the German Foreign Ministry. He has also appeared on the BBC, CNN, FoxNews, PBS, MSNBC, CNBC, C-Span, France24 and Croatia National Televison (HTV), as well as on numerous radio programs including Bill O’Reilly’s Radio Factor, The Laura Ingraham Show, Bill Bennett’s Morning in America, Michael Savage’s Savage Nation, The Sean Hannity Show, The Alan Colmes Show, The G. Gordon Liddy Show, The Neal Boortz Show, The Michael Medved Show, The Michael Reagan Show, The Rusty Humphries Show, The Larry Elder Show, The Barbara Simpson Show, Vatican Radio, and many others.

Spencer (MA, Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) has been studying Islamic theology, law, and history in depth since 1980. As an Adjunct Fellow with the Free Congress Foundation in 2002 and 2003, he wrote a series of monographs on Islam that are still available from the Foundation: An Introduction to the Qur’an;Women and Islam; An Islamic Primer; Islam and the West; The Islamic Disinformation Lobby; Islam vs. Christianity; and Jihad in Context. More recently he has also written monographs for the David Horowitz Freedom Center: What Americans Need to Know About Jihad; The Violent Oppression of Women In Islam (with Phyllis Chesler); Islamic Leaders’ Plan for Genocide; and Muslim Persecution of Christians.

Position: Managing Editor
Issue Specialities: Race Relations, Agendas of the Left, Tactics of the Left, History of the Left
About: In addition to his work with NewsReal, John Perazzo is the Managing Editor of Discover The Networks: A Guide to the Political Left. He is also a contributing writer for FrontPage Magazine. He authored the book The Myths That Divide Us: How Lies Have Poisoned American Race Relations, which drew critical acclaim from David Horowitz, Thomas Sowell, Walter E. Williams, Michael Medved, and Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson.