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| Author: William Ayers
Publisher: Beacon Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 2580
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
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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 Fugitive Days - A good lesson June 24, 2006
9 out of 22 found this review helpful
Contrary to what others may think/say about this book, the Weathermen was a group who wanted to promote peace. They wanted to create a revolution for a better world. It is a misconception that they were "cop killers" or were "terrorists." They simply wanted people to wake up to the atrocities of the Vietnam War and rampant racism in America.
I had the pleasure of meeting Ms. Dorhn and Mr. Ayers and they are two of the nicest people I know. They both are firm believers in peaceful resolution to problems of social injustice and are inspirational at panel discussions.
 Rationalizing Terrorism March 28, 2005
14 out of 46 found this review helpful
Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn are two very sad indviduals, as the they (to-this-day) continue to rationlize their destructive, criminal behavior during their Weather Underground days. Of course Bill claims he isn't a terrorist as he and his collegues were merely targeting symbols and not people. Gee, Bill, does this make a bomb less dangerous or destructive?
This book is only worth reading as evidence that Ayers is a delusional fool. For more evidence of Bill and Bernadine stuck in a time warp, I recommend renting "The Weather Underground" DVD where one is treated to a commentary by Ayers and Dohrn. Among other things they advocate prison breaks, and the release of their former comrade-in-arms, David Gilbert, convicted for the murder of two police officers during the botched Brinks robbery in the early 1980's.
A book with a lesson January 15, 2005
15 out of 34 found this review helpful
Firstly, I am not going to lie and say that I am not politically biased.
I found the book enthralling, and would recommend it to anyone - including my extremely conservative father. Those that seem to hate this book are forgetting what the purpose of books are: to provide a view or idea that may be different from your own and challenges you to think. This book does an excellent job at that with a writing style that conveys intelligence an understanding.
As for the content, many may be offended, and that's ok. If everyone got just one idea out of this book and hated everything else, the world would be a better place. It is this: indifference is the opposite of moral. So if there is an injustice in this world, do something about it!
Scary babblings October 15, 2004
18 out of 55 found this review helpful
This book is a chilling read for anyone in post-Sept. 11, 2001 America and for those who lived through the turbulent 60s, 70s and remembers the psychotic antics of the Underground Weathermen. Bill Ayers fondly recalls those wondrous days of blowing up the Pentagon, trying to murder and blow up the "pigs" and other innocents who didn't share his beliefs or those of his fellow pychos. Ayers and his ilk came from wealthy, white-bread families and this was a chance for them to dramatize their poor, boring lives by pretending to be social outlaws. Protected by money and other kindred rich and air-headed brats, the Underground zanies created their own theatrical reality--where they were bravely trying to destroy the "white man's" society and liberate all those poor little welfare people. Ayers rationalizes this behavior by centering his theme on the trauma of the Vietnam war. He justifies his eager and nutty attempts to murder and maim innocent Americans by inner rage at America and the War. Millions of others were also frustrated by many issues in those days but they didn't attempt to blow up and destroy symbols and people. What's scary is that Bill Ayers is now a Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois. His fellow former terrorist, Bernardine Dorn, is now his wife. What a couple! What they tried to do back in their glory days was accomplished by terrorists Sept. 11, 2001. To paraphrase an old New York saying, "only in America, kids. Only in America."
 Bring the war home April 9, 2004
17 out of 42 found this review helpful
Many people around the world have sacrificed for a better world, and Bill Ayers was one of those people who did what he could from his position, in his time. He gives us an account of his life and times, and milieu.I appreciated some of the things I noticed - he doesn't really talk about how he was an SDS leader or note how this or that person was a leader, everyone is considered on an equal basis. He talks in one section about a black woman who is a good leader in her community, and how government social workers going down their lists would probably classify, in their books, as a general failure as a person. The book is a good mixture of personal and political, of confrontation with authority as well as building community and giving to the community, in poor American neighborhoods or in Guatemala. It is from the point of view of someone who grew up in a normal, middle class, Midwestern family during the 1950's, but even that would be too dangerous to hear on the corporate media, so one would have to read the book to get an idea of the world view that many people in the country and world share.
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