@article{741156,
      recid = {741156},
      author = {Burrough, Bryan,},
      title = {Days of rage : America's radical underground, the FBI, and  the forgotten age of revolutionary violence /},
      pages = {xx, 585 pages :},
      abstract = {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, roughly between 1968 and 1975, when there was  on average more than one significant terrorist act in this  country every week, and 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  it is true that in hindsight many of its efforts seem  almost comically ineffectual, if not criminal in  themselves. But one aim of Bryan Burrough's book 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 courthouse  in Boston, at a Wall Street restaurant packed with  lunchtime diners. Radicals who robbed dozens of banks and  assassinated policemen in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta.  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 was  not overly squeamish about legal niceties, and its efforts  ultimately ended in fiasco. 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 important revelations and fresh  details about the major revolutionaries and their  connections and about the FBI and its desperate efforts to  make the bombings stop.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/741156},
}