Radicals: Portraits of a Destructive Passion by David Horowitz

David Horowitz, 'Radicals:  Portraits of a Destructive Passion,' published by Regnery Publishing, 2012. Radicals is a 232 page hardcover measuring 9 1/4" x 6".  The condition of both the dust jacket and book is very good, with no flaws noted. Book Summary It is an irony of our human condition, writes David Horowitz, that the efforst by progressive radicals to make the world "a better place" have also been the chief source of human suffering from the beginning of time. Bestselling author David Horowitz, once a radical himself, had now written Radicals:  Portraits of a Destructive Passion--his ultimate reflection on radicalism and its inevitably tragic consequences, focusing his analysis not on abstract ideology but on the people who embraced it. Among those profiled in Radicals: The witty and brilliant, if self-destructive, Christopher Hitchens, a friend who had second thoughts but couldn't break with his radical faith. Bettina Aptheker, whose troubled life illustrates the totalitarian