A Radical Line
Subtitle: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience
Publisher: Free Press
Published: October 5, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780743250276
Subjects: Political; United States; Jones family; Biography/Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Radicalism; Political Ideologies - General; Labor movement; United States - 20th Century; History / General; General; 20th century; History
First sentence: Two young women climbed the stairs to an elevated rail platform in Brooklyn during the summer of 1929.
Description: "In this family history, journalist Thai Jones traces the past century of American radical politics through the extraordinary exploits of his own family. Born in the late 1970s to fugitive leaders of the Weather Underground and grandson of Communists, spiritual pacifists, and civil rights agitators, Jones grew up an heir to an American tradition of resistance. Yet rather than partake of it, he took it upon himself to document it." "Beyond the politics, this is the story of a family whose lives were filled with love honored and betrayed, tragic deaths, painful blunders, narrow escapes, and hope-filled births. There is the drama of a pacifist father who must reconcile with a bomb-throwing son and a communist mother whose daughter refuses to accept the lessons she has learned in a life as an organizer. There are parents and children who can never meet or, when they do, must use the ruses and subterfuge of criminals to steal a hug and a hello."--BOOK JACKET.