Berger, Dan
Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground & the Politics of Solidarity
$20.00

How can a book describing a political movement 30 years defunct seem
relevant in the year 2006? Likewise, how can a leftist organization marginalized by the vast majority of the left at the peak of its power seem so on-point now when the left is at the nadir of its influence? How can a political philosophy described by one critic as "kindergarten politics" answer so many of the questions we fight in the midst of a 2nd term of a Christian-fascist American regime? These questions and others are answered in this fascinating account of the sexiest, coolest and most important radical organization to emerge from the political revolution that was the 1960’s and that could be, maybe should be, a revolution today. The story of the Weather Underground is much too complex and subtle to begin to tell in an abbreviated form in the space of this paragraph. On the other hand, Dan Berger’s breathtakingly rich, well-researched account spares nothing. His book is, thankfully a somewhat biased account, in favor of these young rebels, so many others have willingly dismissed as crazy or naive or simply wrong-headed. -- Glen Thrasher