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Underground - by Mark Rudd (Paperback)

Underground - by  Mark Rudd (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>For the first time, the leader of the Columbia University student uprising of 1968 and fugitive member of the notorious Weather Underground tells his compelling and engrossing story.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>"Honest and funny, passionate and contrite, meticulously researched and deeply philosophical: an essential document on the '60s." --<em>Washington Post</em></strong> </p><p><strong>Mark Rudd, former '60s radical student leader and onetime fugitive member of the notorious Weather Underground, tells his compelling and engrossing story for the first time in <em>Underground. </em>The chairman of the SDS and leader of the 1968 student uprising at Columbia University, Rudd offers a gripping narrative of his political awakening and fugitive life during one of the most influential periods in modern U.S. history.</strong></p><p>In 1968, Mark Rudd led the legendary occupation of five buildings at Columbia University, a dramatic act of protest against the university's support for the Vietnam War and its institutional racism. The charismatic chairman of the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society--the largest radical student organization in the United States--Rudd went on to become a national symbol of student revolt, and co-founded the Weathermen faction of SDS, which helped organize the notorious Days of Rage in Chicago in 1969.</p><p>But Mark Rudd wanted revolution, seeking to end war, racism, and injustice by any means necessary--even violence. By the end of 1970, he was one of the FBI's Most Wanted--and after a string of nonlethal bombings, he went into hiding for more than seven years before turning himself in to great media fanfare.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>In 1968, Mark Rudd led the legendary occupation of five buildings at Columbia University, a dramatic act of protest against the university's support for the Vietnam War and its institutional racism. The charismatic chairman of the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society--the largest radical student organization in the United States--Rudd went on to become a national symbol of student revolt, and co-founded the Weathermen faction of SDS, which helped organize the notorious Days of Rage in Chicago in 1969.</p><p>But Mark Rudd wanted revolution, seeking to end war, racism, and injustice by any means necessary--even violence. By the end of 1970, he was one of the FBI's Most Wanted--and after a string of nonlethal bombings, he went into hiding for more than seven years before turning himself in to great media fanfare.</p><p>In this gripping narrative, Rudd speaks out about this tumultuous period, the role he played in its crucial events, and its aftermath.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"An important contribution to a growing collection of narratives from former participants in the revolutionary 1960s' underground....deeply disturbing, though illuminating, in its unemotional matter-of-factness."--truthdig<br>

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