The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground (Haymarket Series)
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Color: Teal/Turquoise green
Categories: Books, Politics & Social Sciences, Politics & Government


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Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.57 x 7.5 inches
ISBN-13: 978-1859841679
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1859841678
Print length: 226 pages
Publication date: November 17, 1997
subtitle: Paperback – November 17, 1997
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review: Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Review The Weather Underground was a small band of no more than a few hundred radicals, yet the fringe group was widely feared and revered as notorious bombers and violent revolutionaries. In The Way the Wind Blew Ron Jacobs presents a history of the group, from its origins on college campuses to the surrender of its last fugitive members in the 1980s. Along the way they set off bombs (...) and issued communiqués that were largely irrelevant if not incomprehensible to the American public. The dispassionate tone of this book allows for a credible narrative history of the group and its most prominent members, but many questions about the group's motivations remain unanswered. From Library Journal Jacobs (librarian, Univ. of Vermont-Burlington), a writer for the alternative monthly Works in Progress, presents a political history of the American New Left group Weatherman, a.k.a. Weather Underground Organization or Weather. Jacobs focuses on Weatherman's policy statements, e.g., Prairie Fire (1973), and its politics of revolutionary youth, anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, and anti-racism. He traces Weatherman from its origins in Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1969, through its activist years from late 1969 to mid-1970s (e.g., the October 1969 Days of Rage in Chicago, street protests, and bombings of the U.S. Capitol and other targets), to its demise in the 1980s as its members either were arrested, surrendered, or left the organization. Despite the lack of historical and contextual explanations and a critical evaluation of WUO's actions, Jacob's engaging and sympathetic political narration is recommended for academic and larger public libraries.?Charles L. Lumpkins, Bloomsburg Univ. Lib., Pa. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review “A full and harrowing history”—David R. Roediger About the Author Raised as a military brat, Ron Jacobs spent many of his child and teen years in US outposts abroad, from Pakistan to Germany. He continued his traveling ways after he left home, hitchhiking around the United States. He writes regularly for Counterpunch , Dissident Voice and other webzines. His essays, articles and reviews have appeared in print and web journals around the world. He currently lives in Burlington, VT. Read more