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Fugitive Days | 
| Author: William Ayers
Publisher: Beacon Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 7873
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
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Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 1
ISBN: 0807071242
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.92092
UPC: 046442071246
EAN: 9780807071243
ASIN: 0807071242
Publication Date: September 10, 2001
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Bill Ayers was born in privilege and is today a highly respected educator and community activist. For ten years, he lived as a fugitive. Ayers's story of how a young pacifist came to help found one of the most radical political organizations in U.S. history is told here with amazing candor and immediacy.
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 fugitive days November 1, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I decided to read this attempt by Mr. Ayers as I kept hearing about it over the last 6-8 months and I am sixty six and a Woodstock survivor.
I tried to get into the work but Mr. Ayers "revelations" of the various movements in the 60's were not as depicted in this work. Maybe he tried to relate his experiences in the 70's and retrofit them to make a more interesting work---but alas he failed. I know because I lived the mid-60's to the late 70's in NYC and he is off base...I guess trying to make himself bigger than he was. He is just another one of the "radicals" who were a joke to the rest of us. Luckily he survived, migrated to Chicago and used his family's influence to get a job. Bill. to get a true view, you need to read my book---"Think or Lose Everything". I look forward to your review.
Lost In America October 31, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Here is a man raised with asilver spoon in his mouth, lacking character, dignity, and a sense of reality,who write's a book that is acclaimed in academic circles. Ayers has not grown up in over 30 years as he recently stated; " when mothers, pregnant women children are killed by bombings, innocent people will be killed in arevolution;" demonstrates his manical obsession with violence. The fact that many professors when interviewed completely igored or downplayed his violent past and Markist presence while focusing on his educational contributions clearly shows how people have become lost in America. One can compare these arguments with Joe Stalin, e.g., who killed, tortured, and starved millions beacsue of his committment to indifference to humanity and "revolution." Ayers is equally lucky to Joe Stalin in that on a technicallity of wire tapping his case was dismissed. He states. "he would do it again and he did not do enough bombing." How anyone could support such a deviant is astounding and demonstrates we are no longer a country of values, morales, intellectual balance, or ethical considerations. A great philosohper once said, "indifference is teh greatest sign of humanity." Ayers has demonstrated staggering indifference to humanity,while cleverly hiding his psychotic serial killer character behind the support of people who have become lost in America,and misguided individuals who think freedom of speech is allowable under any terms regardless of how dispictable and harmful to people that speech may be. Think on it for a while! Here is a man who killed innocent people while young men died in Viet Nam and says he would do it today. Do you feel safe with someone like Ayers at a University teaching your kids? The quesiton begs itself; Why did Ayers not practice peaceful demonstration and civil disobedience to make his point? AFter all Gandhi, King, Thoreau are famous for doing so and accomplished so much that to this day these men are honord and respected. The answer is simsple. Ayers is a serial killing psychotic who has gianed a position where he can do more damage in the true tradition of a serial psychotic. He is more than lost and his ook demonstrates how lost and out of touch he as as a youth and hispresent statements indicate how lost he is today.
Pitiful Self-Justification For Violence October 31, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Bill Ayers is not a revolutionary. He is a coward with virtually no leadership skills. A true leader (who wants to make positive social change)reaches out to develop relationships with those they oppose. Once you develop these relationships, you then have the power to influence them for the greater good (of society). In the Art of War, the philosophical writer believes that the greatest tool a leader has to build a strong army is to bring those with opposing viewpoints together for understanding. Put in another way, when you can have simultaneous understanding between those with opposed viewpoints, you have the greatest tool for building a strong army (social change). Bill Ayers never reached out to those he opposed. Instead, he went "underground" and blew up empty buildings which caused the American taxpayers even more suffering. The fact that he got away with his crimes makes it more disheartening for those of us who continue to work hard and believe in the rule of law. His book is rubbish and belongs next to other titles written by ego-maniacs.
 Revolutionary hubris October 18, 2008
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
I fully understand the revulsion that some people feel toward the author of this book, though I do not share that revulsion.
William Ayers wanted to end the Vietnam war, which was a noble goal. He contributed absolutely nothing toward ending the war. Like most Americans, I was against the war, and I embraced the counter-culture, as I felt American culture had little to offer of value. But no sensible person can expect to end a war using violence to do it.
Those of us counter-culture hippies who took to the street had no real effect on ending the war; Nixon could (and did) ignore us, and would have gleefully shot as many of us as he could get away with. It was the MOTHERS of the soldiers who, when they took to the street, that Nixon could not ignore. They helped more than anyone else to bring that unjust, bloody conflict to an end.
There is an awful lot wrong with America to this day. It is here that Ayers was most insightful. He enjoyed making fools of the FBI and law enforcement, and that comes through clearly in this book, and I believe here he is the most "unrepentant".
Ayers was right to oppose the war, but went wrong with everything he did to try to end it. Any peace that can be achieved through violence isn't worth having. This book would make an effective, if controversial history text. It captures the turbulence of the time very well.
Ayers, the tenured professor of today, is not the radical fugitive he once was. Today, he makes a valuable contribution to the society he once despised. There are those who will never forgive the man, and he is not seeking forgiveness. But forgiveness, forebearance, tolerance and peace are among the better angels of our nature. Don't read this book if doing so is likely to make you angry, but if you can sufficiently distance yourself from that time, the book offers some interesting insights.
Please don't buy this book... it funds a killer October 9, 2008
13 out of 25 found this review helpful
It isn't like Bill Ayers is reformed. He still believes in what he did--his age is holding him back from creating more mayhem. He didn't set bombings only on buildings like the book aserts... he made pipe bombs coated with nails (anti-personnel bombs) set in public places to go off during times the building would be occupied. His terror cell killed several police officers in these bombing and a Brinks guard during a robbery. This coward hid in saftey while his girl friend and 2 other cell members were blown up and killed assembling one of his "nail bombs" destined for a Fort Dix dance! He was not convicted of his crimes because the Gov't caught him through illegal wire taps and the case was thrown out due to prosecutorial misconduct. On leaving the court room he said, "I am guilty and free--isn't America great!?" He also hasn't changed... on 9/11/2001 he was interviewed and asked about the bombing and said, "I don't regret setting bombs." On his blog, when asked if he is sorry he states, "I'm sorry--I think." Don't spend your money... he leaves out many details of his crimes stating, "...some details cannot be told." (He can still be sued by the familes of his victims). Please don't buy...
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