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Bestselling author David Horowitz reveals a shocking and perverse culture of academics who are poisoning the minds of today's college students. The Professors is a wake-up call to all those who assume that a college education is sans hatred of America and the American military and support for America's terrorist enemies.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #266180 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Horowitz, author of Unholy Alliance and founder of FrontPageMag.com, profiles 101 professors whose politics run left of center (in many cases, very, very left of center), and though his list is impressive in size and the amount of research that went into it, the most egregious crimes perpetrated by the majority of these academics is that their politics don't mesh with Horowitz's. Which isn't to say Horowitz hasn't turned up a few surprises: a Northwestern University law professor has a sordid history involving the Weather Underground, and a Rutgers University professor's early poems included lines like, "Rape the white girls" and "I got the extermination blues, jewboys." However, his intention to expose the majority of these professors as "dangerous" and undeserving of their coveted positions seems petty in some cases, as when he smugly mocks the proliferation of departments dedicated to peace studies or considers "anti-war activist" as a character flaw. The only noteworthy point that emerges from Horowitz's melodramatic finger pointing is his questioning of the tenure system, which he believes "serves to protect mediocrity and encourage incompetence." More distressing to Horowitz, it would appear, is that tenure allows professors who disagree with his personal political opinions to continue teaching.
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From the Inside Flap
Coming to a Campus Near You: Terrorists, racists, and communists— you know them as The Professors.

We all know that left-wing radicals from the 1960s have hung around academia and hired people like themselves. But if you thought they were all harmless, antiquated hippies, you’d be wrong. Today’s radical academics aren’t the exception—they’re legion. And far from being harmless, they spew violent anti-Americanism, preach anti-Semitism, and cheer on the killing of American soldiers and civilians—all the while collecting tax dollars and tuition fees to indoctrinate our children. Remember Ward Churchill, the University of Colorado professor who compared the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks to Nazis who deserved what they got? You thought he was bad? In this shocking new book, New York Times bestselling author David Horowitz has news for you: American universities are full of radical academics like Ward Churchill—and worse.

Horowitz exposes 101 academics—representative of thousands of radicals who teach our young people—who also happen to be alleged ex-terrorists, racists, murderers, sexual deviants, anti-Semites, and al-Qaeda supporters. Horowitz blows the cover on academics who: — Say they want to kill white people. — Promote the views of the Iranian mullahs. — Support Osama bin Laden. — Lament the demise of the Soviet Union. — Defend pedophilia. — Advocate the killing of ordinary Americans.

David Horowitz’s riveting exposé is essential reading for parents, students, college alums, taxpayers, and patriotic Americans who don’t think college students should be indoctrinated by sympathizers of Joseph Stalin and Osama bin Laden.

The Professors is truly frightening—and an intellectual call to arms from a courageous author who knows the radicals all too well.

About the Author
DAVID HOROWITZ is a nationally known author and lifelong civil rights activist. He was one of the founders of the New Left movement in the 1960s. He has written numerous books, including the New York Times Bestseller Unholy Alliance, The Politics of Bad Faith, The Art of Political War, and Radical Son, his celebrated autobiography. He is president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture and the founder of online newsmagazine FrontPageMag.com.

Customer Reviews

Troubling; A much needed work on troublesome people
An investigative work into the dangerous and misguided professors across US universities who preach hatred, Jihadism, Islamism and Communism. Brainwashing young people in north american universities is really sickening and this book tells us who is behind the mass brainwashing that s taking place in American colleges and campuses. I would avoid these profs if I were a student.

Eye opening
This book brings to light the dire situation which Americas colleges are in. Our children are being brainwashed by left wing ideologues who have literally infested and taken over campuses of certain colleges in our country.

A must read.

Les
Ultimately the issue here regardless of your political bent is that individuals who are entrusted...almost sacredly...to deliver the best of unbiased, free-thinking education, based on intellectual analysis and discussion, and fair representation, are attempting to influence our young people and exhort them toward political action supporting their agendas. This type of activity is extremely dangerous and is absolutely repulsive and frightening. Unfortunately, it occurs at all levels of education including the public school system, often without reprisal. Leaders in education have an incredible responsibility toward the young, impressionable and often vulnerable minds they are teaching. This kind of trash indoctrination does not belong in the education system but rather the political forum.