Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (609 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00UGD8DXM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 359 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Burrough re-creates an atmosphere that seems almost unbelievable just 40 years later, conjuring a time of native-born radicals, most of them "nice middle-class kids" smuggling bombs into skyscrapers and detonating them inside the Pentagon and the US Capitol, at a Boston courthouse and a Wall Street restaurant packed with lunchtime diners - radicals robbing dozens of banks and assassinating policemen in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta. But there was a stretch of time in America, during the 1970s, when bombings by domestic underground groups were a daily occurrence. The FALN. But part of the extraordinary accomplishment of Bryan Burrough's Days of Rage is to temper those easy judgments with an understanding of just how deranged these times were, how charged with menace. The FBI, encouraged to do everything possible to undermine the radical underground, itself broke many laws in its attempts to bring the revolutionaries to justice - often with disastrous consequences.. The FBI combated these groups and others as nodes in a single revolutionary underground dedicated to the violent overthrow of the American government. The Black Liberation Army. The FBI's response to the leftist revolutionary counterculture has not been treated kindly
Great reminder of a past we are in danger of forgetting Sharon Russell This history of the many groups working against the status quo at the end of the Twentieth century is an important reminder of our past and its impact on our present. The radical groups that operated from the late sixties on wanted to bring radical change to society this history chronicles the past as well as bringing the reader up to date on many of the participants. It is important to remember that the violence that so terrifies some people to. Enthralling, well written, and I highly recommend it! I watched Burrough on a Vanity Fair Confidential episode on Investigation Discovery and that is how I learned about this book. I am a student of Sociology and the topic has enthralled me for quite some time, and I really wanted to learn more about radical groups that grow militant and the way the government reacts. This book has been educational (to say the least), and is grouped and time-lined in such a way that it is a history lesson by storyt. Highly Recommended I followed these events when they occurred, even visiting the NYC site of the townhouse wrecked by the bombers tut Burrough goes behind the headlines and has details you'd never find in a newspaper.Highly recommended.