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The Way the Wind Blew - A History of the Weather Underground (Paperback)
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The Way the Wind Blew - A History of the Weather Underground (Paperback)
Series: Haymarket
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Discovery Miles 4 920
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Bombing its way into the headlines of the early 1970s, the Weather
Underground was one of the most dramatic symbols of the anger felt
by young Americans opposed to the US presence in Vietnam. Mauled in
street battles with the Chicago police during the Days of Rage
demonstrations, Weather concluded that traditional political
protest was insufficient to end the war. They turned instead to
underground guerrilla combat. In this highly readable history, Ron
Jacobs captures the hair-raising drama of a campaign which planted
bombs in banks, military installations and, twice on successive
days, in the US Capitol. He describes the group's formation of
clandestine revolutionary cells, its leaders' disavowal of
monogamous relationships, and their use of LSD to strengthen bonds
between members. He recounts the operational failures of the
group-three members died when a bomb they were building exploded in
Greenwich Village-as well as its victories including a successful
jailbreak of Timothy Leary. Never short-changing the fierce debates
which underpinned the Weather's strategy, Jacobs argues that the
groups eventual demise resulted as much from the contradictions of
its politics as from the increasingly repressive FBI attention.
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