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    Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
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    Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
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    Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence

    Written by Bryan Burrough

    Narrated by Ray Porter

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    The Weathermen. The Symbionese Liberation Army. The FALN. The Black Liberation Army. The names seem quaint now, when not forgotten altogether. But there was a stretch of time in America, during the 1970s, when bombings by domestic underground groups were a daily occurrence. The FBI combated these groups and others as nodes in a single revolutionary underground, dedicated to the violent overthrow of the American government.

    The FBI's response to the leftist revolutionary counterculture has not been treated kindly by history, and in hindsight many of its efforts seem almost comically ineffectual, if not criminal in themselves. 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. Burrough re-creates an atmosphere that seems almost unbelievable just forty 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 U.S. 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. 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. 

    Benefiting from the extraordinary number of people from the underground and the FBI who speak about their experiences for the first time, Days of Rage is filled with revelations and fresh details about the major revolutionaries and their connections and about the FBI and its desperate efforts to make the bombings stop. The result is a mesmerizing book that takes us into the hearts and minds of homegrown terrorists and federal agents alike and weaves their stories into a spellbinding secret history of the 1970s.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateApr 7, 2015
    ISBN9780698154582
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    Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
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    Bryan Burrough

    Bryan Burrough is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair, and the author of three books, Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco (With John Helyar), Dragonfly: An Epic Adventure of Survival in Outer Space, and Vendetta: American Express and the Smearing of Edmond Safra. A former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, he is a three-time winner of the John Hancock Award for excellence in financial journalism. He lives in Summit, New Jersey with his wife Marla and their two sons.

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    • 4/5
      For years I've dined out on the fact that I knew Bill Harris, who kidnapped Patty Hearst, in college. When asked how that could be, i usually tell the questioner that in the 1960's, a portion of everyone you knew went totally off the rails.Bryan Burrough does an excellent job of demonstrating how my feeling was true as he traces the history of the Weather Underground, the Black Liberation Army, the FALN, the Symbionese Liberation Army and The Family from their heydays in the late 1960's and early 1970's to their sad demise in the 1980's.Compared with today's terrorists these groups were laughable amateurs. Yes they bombed buildings, but mostly bathrooms in the middle of the night. One wonders how they ever believed that they were going to over throw the government. And the FBI and law enforcement agencies, despite breaking the Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, seemed incapable of arresting any of them.In the end, it all was a waste: of lives, a waste of opportunities and a total collapse of idealistic (if twisted) politics. As one of the old radicals who was interviewed said, "It was all an f'ing waste."
    • 4/5
      My memory has faded over the years. Somehow, I'd forgotten just how many revolutionary leftist groups were not only publicly protesting in the America of the late 1960s and 1970s but actually bombing targets they believed represented all that was wrong with our government and society. I certainly remembered the Symbionese Liberation Army (the people who first kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst and then converted her to their ideology) and the sect of the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) that became the Weathermen ("You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind's blowing" --Bob Dylan) and the notorious Bernardine Dohrn, but there were many, many more.Investigative reported Bryan Burrough takes us through the twisted history of these groups, showing how some of them became corrupted from drug addiction and others splintered from factional conflicts. He puts a human face on these people by showing the difficulties most of them faced when they went underground. More than a few of them married and had children and had to periodically uproot themselves overnight when they feared their covers had been blown.Forty years later, most of them are dead. A few are still in prison (and are likely to die behind bars), but many of them served their sentences and were paroled long ago. He interviews many of them, and their general consensus was that, for all of their idealistic (and, most now admit, insanely violent) actions, little has changed.
    • 4/5
      It is really amazing that the late 1960s and 1970s were a time when bombs went off regularly in major American cities, and we (in which I include myself, though I was a kid at the time) just don’t remember; don’t study it in history; and don’t experience any ongoing effects from it given the later metastasis of the security state that began to emerge as a result. Burrough sees the alienation and violence of the young whites whose stories he tells as needing explanation; he does not, however, feel the need to explain why the Black Panthers were angry. (A feature of this book is black people who are driving getting stopped for looking suspicious; because these particular black people were often armed and dangerous, they were often arrested and at least once that Burrough recounts, beaten and burned with cigarettes. Another feature is black radicals’ recruitment of white women to do things and go places where black men would be too suspicious.) According to Burrough, and as a very articulate explanation by a white former underground member says at the end of the book, the usually middle-class white students who joined various underground movements were mostly motivated by revulsion at their own white privilege and an attempt to get broader white society to renounce racism. However, as their efforts proved futile and America turned increasingly conservative, they often degenerated into bank robbing/bombing groups with more of a cult-like commitment to each other than to effective politics. The various groups were always small but often seemed larger; one of the most interesting stories is that of the Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN, whose main bomb maker blew off his own fingers and then escaped from jail.