Underground
Subtitle: my life with SDS and the Weathermen
By: Mark Rudd
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780061472756
Subjects: Student movements; Radicals; Biography; Radicalism; Weather Underground Organization; College students; Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.); Weatherman (Organization); Political activity; History
Description: With the war in Iraq provoking memories of Vietnam, Rudd gave up a 25-year silence on his role in the radical student movement of the 1960s when he lead the Weathermen. The group grew out of the Student for Democratic Society behind massive anti-war and social-justice protests at Columbia University. Rudd recalls his personal journey from idealistic freshman to student radical and the escalating violence that led to the riot during the 1969 Democratic party convention in Chicago and the bombing of a townhouse in Greenwich Village.
Table of contents: title: Columbia (1965-1968). A good German ; Love and war ; Action faction ; Columbia liberated ; Police riot : Strike! ; Create two, three, many Columbias; title: SDS and Weatherman (1968-1970). National traveler ; SDS split ; Bring the war home! ; Days of rage ; To West Eleventh Street ; Mendocino; title: Underground (1970-1977). The bell jar ; Santa Fe ; Schoolhouse blues ; WUO split ; A middle-class hero.