ABSTRACT
When confronting Irving Louis Horowitz’s writing, especially on policy, one is struck by its sheer volume. Commanding our attention is the prodigious outpouring of scholarship from this man. Rarely have so few written so much for so many. As recognized by Howard Becker,1 among others, even enumerating his writings could occupy an entire treatise of its own. Indeed nothing but the simple listing of his publications has received book-length treatment; now even this compilation itself requires a bulky supplement.2 Yet this man must be measured by more than what verbiage issues from his hand. He must also be measured by whether what is in his head gets into the heads of others. Here a rudimentary quantitative measure may suffice: in the past two decades, he has been cited in scholarly articles of others no fewer than 600 times.3 Moreover, this figure excludes the manifold citations in books, chapters, reviews, and conference papers: it includes only academic journal articles. The span of topics, as reflected in these festschrift papers, includes a wide range from Cuban politics to the publishing industry. This is a man of very large intellectual proportions indeed.
