Love and struggle
Subtitle: my life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and beyond
By: David Gilbert
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oakland, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781604863192
Subjects: Weather Underground Organization; Political activists; Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.); Biography
Description: "Written from the maximum-security prison where he has lived for almost 30 years, this enlightening memoir chronicles the militant career of David Gilbert, a radical activist whose incarceration is due to his involvement in the 1981 Brinks robbery, an attempted expropriation that resulted in four deaths. From his entry into the world of political activism as the founder of Students for a Democratic Society at Columbia University to his departure from public life in order to help build the clandestine resistance to war and racism known as the Weathermen, Gilbert relates all of the victories he has achieved and obstacles he has encountered during his struggle to build a new world. In telling the intensely personal story he is stripped of all illusions and assesses his journey from liberal to radical to revolutionary with rare humor and frankness"--Amazon.com, viewed March 2, 2012.