Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence Audiobook (Free)

From the bestselling author of Public Enemies and The Big Rich, an explosive account from the decade-long battle between your FBI and the homegrown revolutionary movements of the 1970s

The Weathermen. The Symbionese Liberation Military. The FALN. The Black Liberation Military. The names seem quaint now, you should definitely forgotten completely. But there was a stretch of time in America, through the 1970s, when bombings by home underground groups had been a daily event. The FBI about Days of Trend: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Ignored Age of Revolutionary Violence combated these organizations as well as others as nodes in one revolutionary underground, dedicated to the violent overthrow of the American government.

The FBI’s response towards the leftist revolutionary counterculture is not treated kindly by history, and in hindsight a lot of its efforts seem nearly comically ineffectual, if not criminal in themselves. But part of the amazing success of Bryan Burrough’s Times of Rage can be to temper those easy judgments with a knowledge of precisely how deranged these times were, how billed with menace. Burrough re-creates an atmosphere that appears nearly unbelievable simply forty years later, conjuring a period of native-born radicals, most of them “great middle-class kids,” smuggling bombs into skyscrapers and detonating them inside the Pentagon as well as the U.S. Capitol, at a Boston courthouse and a Wall Street restaurant filled with lunchtime diners-radicals robbing a large number of banks and assassinating policemen in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta. The FBI, inspired to do everything feasible to undermine the radical underground, itself broke many laws in its attempts to bring the revolutionaries to justice-often with disastrous consequences.

Benefiting from the extraordinary number of people through the underground as well as the FBI who all discuss their experiences for the very first time, Times of Rage is usually filled with revelations and fresh information regarding the main revolutionaries and their connections and about the FBI and its desperate efforts to help make the bombings stop. The result is usually a mesmerizing book that requires us into the hearts and minds of homegrown terrorists and federal agents alike and weaves their stories right into a spellbinding secret background of the 1970s.