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Autore |
Burton-Rose Daniel |
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Titolo |
Guerrilla USA : the George Jackson Brigade and the anticapitalist underground of the 1970s / / Daniel Burton-Rose |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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0-520-94603-0 |
9786612697722 |
1-282-69772-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (358 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Guerrillas - United States - History - 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prelude -- 1. Conceptions of Revolution and Violence, 1961-1967 -- 2. A Cresting Wave, 1967-1970 -- 3. Delivering on Threats, 1971-1975 -- 4. A Child Prodigy -- 5. Jailhouse Lawyer -- 6. Strike! -- 7. A Rebel and a Cause -- 8. The Destroyer's Creation -- 9. Woman over the Edge of Crime -- 10. Women's Work -- 11. Inside Out -- 12. Days and Nights of Love and War -- 13. New York, New York -- 14. Liberating the New World from the Old -- 15. Invitation to a Bombing -- 16. A Night without City Light -- 17. Dog Day Afternoon -- 18. Jailbreak! -- 19. Clueless in Seattle -- 20. Diverging Paths to a Common Dream -- 21. Ed Mead Gets His Day in Court -- 22. Underground in Oregon -- 23. Back with a Bang! -- 24. Winding Down -- 25. Crying a River -- Coda -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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-1970's 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 |
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