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transition that led them away from the Left and ultimately made them, in their own term, "second thoughters" engaged in ongoing political combat with their former comrades. Collier and Horowitz traveled to Nicaragua in 1987 at the invitation of the State Department to encourage the "civic resistance" against the Sandinistas. The same year they organized a "Second Thoughts Convention" in Washington D.C. Their book about leaving the Left and becoming its enemies,
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came to an end, he and fellow Ramparts writer David Horowitz became disillusioned when the New Left turned a blind eye to the atrocities committed by the communist victors in Southeast Asia—the tiger cages and boat people in South Vietnam, the genocide in Cambodia. They began a slow motion political
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Returning to California, Collier taught Freshman English at UC Berkeley from 1964 to 1969 and again as a Visiting Writer from 1977 to 1981. He also taught at UC Santa Cruz and at Miles College in Birmingham, Alabama. Collier is a fellow of the
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He served as a co-author with Horowitz on several books on American history and political science. Their biographies
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notable books of the year list in 1984. Later, they co-wrote critical of the left and of leftists, including
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in California and held that position from 1998 until he resigned in 2005. The company moved from
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magazine, the splashy, four-color publication that was influential in transmitting
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The Race Card: White Guilt, Black Resentment, and the Assault on Truth and Justice
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and attended Hollywood Progressive School. He grew up in Burbank and attended the
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University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
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Book and Multimedia DVD with photography by Nick Del Calzo Artis (2003)
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as "the premier biographer of American dynastic tragedy." His book
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with photography by Nick del Calzo. Naval Institute Press (2016)
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When Shall They Rest? The Cherokees' Long Struggle with America
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is a creative director, digital strategist, and entrepreneur.
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to New York City, and Collier was replaced as publisher by
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Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty
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Political Woman: The Big Little Life of Jeane Kirkpatrick
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Second Thoughts: Former Radicals Look Back at the Sixties
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Medal of Honor: Profiles of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty
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Deconstructing the Left: From Vietnam to the Clinton Era
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The Heterodoxy Handbook: How to Survive the PC Campus
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