| Guerrilla USA: The George Jackson Brigade and the Anticapitalist Underground of the 1970s Contributor(s): Burton-Rose, Daniel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520264290 ISBN-13: 9780520264298 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Radicalism - History | United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (or, Wa) - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 322.420 |
| LCCN: 2010004932 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.10 lbs) 358 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1970's - Locality - Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, Wa - Geographic Orientation - Washington - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "We are cozy cuddly/armed and dangerous/and we will/raze the fucking prisons/to the ground." In an attempt to deliver on this promise, the George Jackson Brigade launched a violent three-year campaign in the mid-1970s against corporate and state institutions in the Pacific Northwest. This campaign, conceived by a group of blacks and whites, both straight and gay, claimed fourteen bombings, as many bank robberies, and a jailbreak. Drawing on extensive interviews with surviving members of the George Jackson Brigade, Guerrilla USA provides an inside-out perspective on the social movements of the 1970s, revealing the whole era in a new and more complex light. It is also a compelling exploration of the true nature of crime and a provocative meditation on the tension between self-restraint and anger in the process of social change. |