Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the Fbi, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
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AlbakiReads Editorial A history of 1970s revolutionary violence and the federal response
A history of 1970s revolutionary violence and the federal response
Bryan Burrough examines the largely forgotten network of U.S. underground revolutionary groups active during the 1970s, including the Weathermen, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the FALN, and the Black Liberation Army. The book places bombings and other acts of political violence alongside the FBI’s effort to treat disparate organizations as a connected insurgency. It also traces Squad 47, the secret FBI task force created to pursue these groups, and addresses the illegal tactics that compromised its campaign. Drawing on interviews with former radicals and federal agents, the account frames the decade as a conflict shaped by ideology, surveillance, violence, and institutional overreach.
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- Readers of twentieth-century U.S. political history
- Those interested in domestic radical movements and political violence
- Readers exploring FBI history and federal law-enforcement operations
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1970s United StatesRevolutionary underground movementsDomestic political violenceFBI surveillance and counterterrorismGovernment overreach
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Book Overview "A fascinating look at an almost forgotten era of homegrown terrorism . . . Utterly captivating, coupling careful historical research wit...
"A fascinating look at an almost forgotten era of homegrown terrorism . . . Utterly captivating, coupling careful historical research with breathless accounts of the bombings and the perpetrators' narrow escapes." --Seattle Times
"A rich and important history." --Washington Post
From the bestselling author of Public Enemies and The Big Rich, an explosive account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and the homegrown revolutionary movements of the 1970s
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 time in America, during the 1970s, when bombings by domestic underground groups were a daily occurrence. The FBI combated these and other groups as nodes in a single revolutionary underground, dedicated to the violent overthrow of the American government.
In Days of Rage, Bryan 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. The FBI's fevered response included the formation of a secret task force called Squad 47, dedicated to hunting the groups down and rolling them up. But Squad 47 itself broke many laws in its attempts to bring the revolutionaries to justice, and its efforts ultimately ended in fiasco.
Drawing on revelatory interviews with members of the underground and the FBI who speak about their experiences for the first time, Days of Rage 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.
"A rich and important history." --Washington Post
From the bestselling author of Public Enemies and The Big Rich, an explosive account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and the homegrown revolutionary movements of the 1970s
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 time in America, during the 1970s, when bombings by domestic underground groups were a daily occurrence. The FBI combated these and other groups as nodes in a single revolutionary underground, dedicated to the violent overthrow of the American government.
In Days of Rage, Bryan 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. The FBI's fevered response included the formation of a secret task force called Squad 47, dedicated to hunting the groups down and rolling them up. But Squad 47 itself broke many laws in its attempts to bring the revolutionaries to justice, and its efforts ultimately ended in fiasco.
Drawing on revelatory interviews with members of the underground and the FBI who speak about their experiences for the first time, Days of Rage 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.
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 624 | Language: English | Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP | ISBN: 0143107976
FormatPaperback
Pages624
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0143107976
EAN9780143107972
PublisherPENGUIN GROUP
Publication Date2016-04-05
EditionReprint
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight1.0 Pounds
Length8.4 Inches
Width5.5 Inches
Height1.3 Inches
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