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Mortality and Faith
Reflections on a
Journey Through Time
A Political
Warrior’s Moving Last Chapter
By David Horowitz
David Horowitz’s Mortality and Faith: Reflections on a Journey through Time brings to completion one of the most remarkable autobiographies of recent decades. The long-awaited sequel to Radical Son, which George Gilder called "The first great American autobiography of his generation," Morality and Faith has been hailed as "a masterpiece of autobiography... a poignantly beautiful testament.
The story that began with Horowitz's bestselling memoir Radical
Son, concludes here with three collected works - The End of Time, A
Point in Time, and You’re Going to Be Dead One Day - and ends with a
reflective coda, Staying Alive, as Horowitz looks beyond his lifetime of
passionate political engagement to take stock of what it means to believe, to
doubt, and to face the inevitability of death. His journey has taken him from
the restless radicalism of his youth to the mature contentment of a happy
warrior who has found a philosophical place of resignation, contemplation, and
peace.
Horowitz explores the spiritual life as a skeptic and a seeker.
Confronting his own intimations of mortality, he drafts a blueprint for hope.
Meditating deeply on the works of Marcus Aurelius, Saul Bellow, Blaise Pascal,
and Dostoevsky and mining the wisdom of the Bible, Horowitz writes beautifully
about the end of his journey and its ultimate meaning. Even as his memories
fade, his body weakens, and his loved ones pass away, he sees a light that
obliterates despair and gives him courage. Horowitz takes on his lifetime quest
to understand the well-springs of radicalism, including the inspiration for the
attackers of 9/11 and the two types of faith that govern all of our historical
destines.
"Eloquently written with even more passion and
introspection" than Radical Son itself, Mortality and Faith
has been called "a big, chewy chomp into life’s big, hard questions: Why
are you here? What is 'here' anyway? What happens after we die? How does death
affect life?" It is also an intensely personal book with a story of
family and love at its center, and is the author’s ongoing encounters with the
hazards of age. [more...]
"Beautifully written, unflinching in its contemplation of
the abyss, and yet finally hopeful in its acceptance of human
finitude."
-- Literary critic and political
liberal Stanley Fish
"A poignant and elegiac reflection on life from a man who
bears the burden of unknowing with courage and grace."
-- Andrew Klavan
"I have admired David Horowitz for decades. He has taught
me many important lessons. But never have I been so moved by his writing than I
am by this profound book."
--Dennis Prager
