ABSTRACT
The books by social scientist, editor, publisher, and writer, Irving Louis Horowitz have analyzed the political implications of forces as diverse as communism in Cuba, the changing shape of publishing technology, religious figure Sun Myung Moon of the Unification church, and the work of American sociologist C. Wright Mills. In Who’ s Who he has described himself as “having one mission in three parts: the writing, publishing and teaching of social science.” Described as both a “neo-conservative” and a “left academic” by Jeff Greenfield in The New York Times Book Review, the Harlem-born Horowitz began his teaching career at the University of Buenos Aires and continued his international role in social theory through posts in Venezuela, Mexico, India, and Tokyo. He received a special citation from the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace in 1957 for his book, The Idea of War and Peace in Contemporary Philosophy.
