Bad moon rising
how the Weather Underground beat the FBI and lost the revolution
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Word Count
88,000 words, Guess
Page Count
352 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100300221185
- ISBN-139780300221183
- AmazonB01M1KWDPU
- Library of Congress Control Number2016933043
- OCLC Control Number945946520
and 3 more
- Better World Books9780300221183
- Better World BooksW8-BCA-863
- Open LibraryOL27217481M
Classifications
- DDC322.4/209730904
- LCCHN90.R3 E25 2016
- LCCHN90.R3E25 2016
Alternate Titles
- How the Weather Underground beat the FBI and lost the revolution
Description
In the summer of 1970 and for years after, photos of Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeff Jones, and other members of the Weather Underground were emblazoned on FBI wanted posters. In Bad Moon Rising, Arthur Eckstein details how Weather began to engage in serious, ideologically driven, nationally coordinated political violence and how the FBI attempted to monitor, block, and capture them?and failed. Eckstein further shows how the FBI ordered its informants inside Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to support the faction that became Weather during the tumultuous June 1969 SDS convention, helping to destroy the organization; and how the FBI first underestimated Weather?s seriousness, then overestimated its effectiveness, and how Weather outwitted them. Eckstein reveals how an obsessed and panicked President Nixon and his inner circle sought to bypass a cautious J. Edgar Hoover, contributing to the creation of the rogue Plumbers Unit that eventually led to Watergate. Based on interviews and 30,000 pages of previously unreleased FBI documents.
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