|
Product Description
A startling history of the forlorn war between the Weather Underground and the FBI, based on interviews and 30,000 pages of previously unreleased FBI documents
In the summer of 1970 and for years after, photos of Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeff Jones, and other members of the Weather Underground were emblazoned on FBI wanted posters. In Bad Moon Rising, Arthur Eckstein details how Weather began to engage in serious, ideologically driven, nationally coordinated political violence and how the FBI attempted to monitor, block, and capture its members—and failed. Eckstein further shows that the FBI ordered its informants inside Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to support the faction that became Weather during the tumultuous June 1969 SDS convention, helping to destroy the organization; and that the FBI first underestimated Weather’s seriousness, then overestimated its effectiveness, and how Weather outwitted them. Eckstein reveals how an obsessed and panicked President Nixon and his inner circle sought to bypass a cautious J. Edgar Hoover, contributing to the creation of the rogue Plumbers Unit that eventually led to Watergate.
In the summer of 1970 and for years after, photos of Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeff Jones, and other members of the Weather Underground were emblazoned on FBI wanted posters. In Bad Moon Rising, Arthur Eckstein details how Weather began to engage in serious, ideologically driven, nationally coordinated political violence and how the FBI attempted to monitor, block, and capture its members—and failed. Eckstein further shows that the FBI ordered its informants inside Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to support the faction that became Weather during the tumultuous June 1969 SDS convention, helping to destroy the organization; and that the FBI first underestimated Weather’s seriousness, then overestimated its effectiveness, and how Weather outwitted them. Eckstein reveals how an obsessed and panicked President Nixon and his inner circle sought to bypass a cautious J. Edgar Hoover, contributing to the creation of the rogue Plumbers Unit that eventually led to Watergate.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- With the Weathermen: The Personal Journal of a Revolutionary Woman (Subterranean Lives)
- Bringing the War Home
- Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity
- You Say You Want a Revolution: SDS, PL, and Adventures in Building a Worker-Student Alliance
- Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist
- Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen
- Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
- Sing a Battle Song: The Revolutionary Poetry, Statements, and Communiques of the Weather Underground 1970-1974
- Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman
- Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond
*If this is not the "Bad Moon Rising: How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link. Details were last updated on Dec 26, 2024 04:18 +08.