Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the

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

From the bestselling author of Public Enemies and The Big Rich, anÂ explosive account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and theÂ homegrown revolutionary movements of the 1970s

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

The FBIâ€™s response to the leftist revolutionaryÂ counterculture has not been treated kindly byÂ history, and in hindsight many ofÂ its efforts seem almost comically ineffectual,Â if not criminal in themselves. But part ofÂ the extraordinary accomplishment of BryanÂ Burroughâ€™s Days of Rage is to temperÂ those easy judgments with an understanding ofÂ just how deranged these times were, how chargedÂ with menace. Burrough re-creates an atmosphereÂ that seems almost unbelievable just forty yearsÂ later, conjuring a time of native-born radicals,Â most of them â€œnice middle-class kids,â€ smugglingÂ bombs into skyscrapers and detonating them insideÂ the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, at a Boston courthouse and a Wall Street restaurant packed withÂ lunchtime dinersâ€”radicals robbing dozens ofÂ banks and assassinating policemen in New York,Â 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 justiceâ€”often with disastrous consequences.Â

Benefiting from the extraordinary number ofÂ people from the underground and the FBI whoÂ speak about their experiences for the first time,Â Days of Rage is filled with revelationsÂ and fresh details about the major revolutionariesÂ and their connections and about the FBI and itsÂ desperate efforts to make the bombings stop. TheÂ result is a mesmerizing book that takes us into the hearts and minds ofÂ homegrown terrorists and federal agents alikeÂ and weaves their stories into a spellbinding secretÂ history of the 1970s.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-04-07
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-04-07
Format	Kindle eBook

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

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