In The Anti Chomsky Reader, editors Peter Collier and David Horowitz have assembled a set of essays that analyze Chomsky’s intellectual career and the evolution of his anti-Americanism. The essays in this provocative book focus on subjects such as Chomsky’s bizarre involvement with Holocaust revisionism, his apologies for Khmer Rouge tyrant Pol Pot, and his claim that America’s policies in Latin America in the 1980s were comparable to Nazism. Scholar Paul Bogdanor writes about Chomsky’s hatred of Israel. Ronald Radosh and David Horowitz discuss his gloating reaction to the September 11 attack. Linguists Paul Postal and Robert Levine reevaluate Chomsky’s linguistics and find the same qualities there that others see in his politics: “a deep contempt for the truth, descents into incoherence, and verbal abuse of those who disagree with him.” The Anti Chomsky Reader presents a fascinating composite portrait of a man who arguably is our most influential public intellectual.
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The Anti Chomsky Reader
Publication Details
Paperback / 240 pages
ISBN: 9781893554979
PUBLISHED: 9/1/2004
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About the Authors
Peter Collier (1939-2019) was a distinguished author and editor for over forty years. During that time, he wrote novels, short stories and screenplays, along with best-selling biographies including The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty; The Kennedys: An American Dream; The Fords: An American Epic; and Destructive Generation (all with David Horowitz).
David Horowitz is a nationally known author and lifelong civil rights activist. Previously a long time founder of the New Left movement in the 1960s, he has gone on to pen numerous books, including The Politics of Bad Faith, The Art of Political War and Radical Son, his autobiography.
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