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Guerrilla USA: The George Jackson Brigade and the Anticapitalist Underground of the 1970s
Daniel Burton-Rose
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Description for Guerrilla USA: The George Jackson Brigade and the Anticapitalist Underground of the 1970s
Paperback. Drawing on extensive interviews with surviving members of the George Jackson Brigade, this book provides an inside-out perspective on the social movements of the 1970s. 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. Num Pages: 358 pages, 28 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JJPL; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 496.
'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 ... Read more
'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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
Number of Pages
358
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520264298
SKU
V9780520264298
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About Daniel Burton-Rose
Daniel Burton-Rose is the editor of Creating a Movement with Teeth: A Documentary History of the George Jackson Brigade, and coeditor, with Dan Pens and Paul Wright, of The Celling of America: An Inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry, among other books.
Reviews for Guerrilla USA: The George Jackson Brigade and the Anticapitalist Underground of the 1970s
"Burton-Rose demonstrates an extensive knowledge on the subject and provides a great source of information."
Susie Poulter Sacramento News & Review "Guerilla USA is useful as a window into the radical underground."
Kieran Taylor Journal Of American History
Susie Poulter Sacramento News & Review "Guerilla USA is useful as a window into the radical underground."
Kieran Taylor Journal Of American History