May 23, 1997

Books

Radical Son

Radical SonA Journey Through Our TimesDavid HorowitzThe Free Pess, $24.50, 468 pp.

Julia Vitullo-Martin

When David Horowitz was a child, he and other children of Communist party members went to Camp Wo-Chi-Ca, short for "Workers’ Children’s Camp," where they held ritual bonfires to burn comic books considered "imperialistic" and "anti-Communist" by the camp’s directors. Today he is president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture in Los Angeles, where (...)


 

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