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Title: Fugitive Days: A Memoir by William Ayers, Bill Ayers ISBN: 0-14-200255-0 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.49 (47 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: A little thin
Comment: I picked up "Fugitive Days" hoping to get an insider's account of life as a fugitive and an explanation of those days. Maybe Ayers' own admission that memory is shaky and not entirely trustworthy should have been a hint to me. I found little of what I was looking for. I find the title misleading. Only about one-third of the book is about his days as a fugitive and the description of that time is vague. He doesn't even describe how they finally turned themselves in. I didn't get a clear idea of who the other members of the Weathermen were and how they interacted with each other. He and Diana Oughton loved each other, but I don't get a sense of that love. He uses the book mostly to expound upon the ideas of that time and his ideas now. Definitely not a straight autobiography; more of a philosophical rant.
Rating: 1
Summary: Revolting radical chic narcissism
Comment: That this thing ever found a publisher is disgusting. Mr. Ayres is utterly incapable of realizing or telling the truth about his grotesque and violent ideas or passage through life. Lies about his history and motives whenever it suits his purposes to do so. Avoid this package of lies and inadequate justifications at all costs.
Rating: 5
Summary: fight the real enemy
Comment: One of the few books to tell the story of the Weathermen, some of whom are still serving jail time while Nixon got an easy pardon for Watergate (and after planting quite a few bombs in the Vietnamese countryside), while dr Kissinger is the seminal American war-criminal and general Westmoreland should have been sent to the Hague later on. My point is: these guys had a mission, they were the true Americans, they risked their lives fighting the war machine that sent young Americans to die in a futile war. And what did they get - not a pardon, thatÂ's for ure. OK, so they could have run away to Canada (or Sweden...), but they chose to stand up to their beliefs. I mean, give these guys some credit!
I like to read these one star - reviews that show how little some people understand about those time. There was a war going on, these guys took the trenchlines inside the United States of America where they really belonged. But some Americans are so happy with throwing bombs everywhere else, and supporting Fascist governments like the one in Chile after the 1973 coup.
The book by mr. Ayers is a strange book to come out of America where most books are written in political ignorance.
I think these one-star reviewers should be sent to the Vietnamese countryside on a holiday trip to see what their government did to a small, brave nation that fought an impossible fight and survived.
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Title: Prairie Radical A Journey Through the Sixties by Robert Pardun ISBN: 0918828201 Publisher: Shire Pr Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Family Circle : The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left by Susan Braudy ISBN: 0679432949 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Weathermen : by Robert C Jr. Moore ISBN: 0595196292 Publisher: Writers Club Press Pub. Date: 07 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years 1960-1975 by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz ISBN: 0872863905 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Company You Keep by Neil Gordon ISBN: 0670032182 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 26 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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