Days of rage : America's radical underground, the FBI, and the forgotten age of revolutionary violence

9781594204296
1594204292

xx, 585 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 557-567) and index

Prologue
"The revolution ain't tomorrow. It's now. You dig?" : Sam Melville and the birth of the American underground
"Negroes with guns" : Black rage and the road to revolution
Weatherman. "You say you want a revolution" : the Movement and the emergence of Weatherman ; "As to killing people, we were prepared to do that" : Weatherman, January to March 1970 ; The Townhouse : Weatherman, March to June 1970 ; "Responsible terrorism" : Weatherman, June 1970 to October 1970 ; The wrong side of history : Weatherman and the FBI, October 1970 to April 1971
The Black Liberation Army. "An army of angry niggas" : the birth of the Black Liberation Army, Spring 1971 ; The rise of the BLA : the Black Liberation Army, June 1971 to February 1972 ; "We got pretty small" : the Weather Underground and the FBI, 1971-72 ; Blood in the streets of Babylon : The Black Liberation Army, 1973
The second wave. The dragon unleashed : the rise of the Symbionese Liberation Army, November 1973 to February 1974 ; "Patty has been kidnapped" : the Symbionese Liberation Army, February to May 1974 ; What Patty Hearst wrought : the rise of the post-SLA underground ; "The Belfast of North America" : Patty Hearst, the SLA, and the Mad Bombers of San Francisco ; Hard times : the death of the Weather Underground ; "Welcome to Fear City" : the FALN, 1976 to 1978 ; "Armed revolutionary love" : the odyssey of Ray Levasseur ; Bombs and diapers : Ray Levasseur's odyssey, part II
Out with a bang. The Family : the Pan-Radical Alliance, 1977 to 1979 ; Jailbreaks and captures : the Family and the FALN, 1979-80 ; The scales of justice : trials, surrenders, and the Family, 1980-81 ; The last revolutionaries : the United Freedom Front, 1981 to 1984
Epilogue

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