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On Wednesday, Sept. 18, David Horowitz, a conservative activist, writer and publisher of the online magazine, Frontpagemagazine.com, will appear with Hamilton History Professor Maurice Isserman in a forum titled, "Can the Left and the Right Find Anything to Agree About the Sixties?"  Horowitz's books include Destructive Generation, Second Thoughts about the Sixties and  Radical Son.  Isserman is co-author of  America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s and The Other American: the Life of Michael Harrington.  The forum will be presented in the Kirner-Johnson Building's Red Pit at 7:30 p.m.

Horowitz during the 1960s was one of the founders of the New Left and the editor of its largest magazine, Ramparts. Today, Horowitz is a born-again Conservative. He remembers the sixties for its barbarism and what in American life the sixties generation destroyed without offering the country anything of value in its place. This year he has joined Ward Connerly's campaign to pass a Racial Privacy Initiative. This is an anti-racial profiling initiative that would prevent government agencies from asking citizens about their race. Horowitz is an outspoken opponent of censorship and racial preferences, and a defender of the rights of minorities and other groups under attack -- including the rights of blacks, gays, women, Jews, Muslims, Christians and white males.

Isserman, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History, is an expert on 20th-century U.S. history and is widely acknowledged to be one of the preeminent historians of the 1960s. A former Fulbright grant-winner, Isserman authored The Other American - The Life of Michael Harrington, which was reviewed in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. He co-authored a history of the sixties, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, published by Oxford University Press. An expert on reform and radical movements, Isserman recently published an editorial about Dorothy Day in The Nation and an opinion piece for The Los Angeles Times about the 1960 Democratic Convention in Los Angeles.

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