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From the bestselling author of Public Enemies and The Big Rich, anexplosive account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and thehomegrown revolutionary terrorists of the 1970s The Weathermen. The Symbionese LiberationArmy. The FALN. The Black Liberation Army.The names seem quaint now, when not forgottenaltogether. But there was a stretch of time inAmerica, roughly between 1968 and 1975, whenthere was on average more than one significantterrorist act in this country every week, and theFBI combated these groups and others as nodes in asingle revolutionary underground, dedicated to theviolent overthrow of the American government. The FBI s response to the leftist revolutionarycounterculture has not been treated kindly byhistory, and it is true that in hindsight many ofits efforts seem almost comically ineffectual, if not criminal in themselves. But part ofthe extraordinary accomplishment of BryanBurrough s groundbreaking book is to temperthose easy judgments with an understanding ofjust how deranged these times were, how chargedwith menace. Burrough re-creates an atmospherethat seems almost unbelievable just forty yearslater, conjuring a time of native-born radicals, most of them nice middle-class kids, smugglingbombs into skyscrapers and detonating them insidethe Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, at a courthousein Boston, at a Wall Street restaurant packed withlunchtime diners. Radicals who robbed dozens ofbanks and assassinated policemen, in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta. The FBI s fevered responseincluded the formation of a secret task force calledSquad 47, dedicated to hunting the groups downand rolling them up. But Squad 47 itself was notoverly squeamish about legal niceties, and itsefforts ultimately ended in fiasco. Benefiting from the extraordinary number ofpeople from the underground and the FBI whospeak about their experiences for the first time, Days of Rage is filled with important revelationsand fresh details about the major revolutionariesand their connections and about the FBI and itsdesperate efforts to make the bombings stop. Theresult is mesmerizing and completely new abook that takes us into the hearts and minds ofhomegrown terrorists and federal agents alikeand weaves their stories into a spellbinding secrethistory of the 1970s.

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<b>Bryan Burrough</b> is a special correspondentat <i>Vanity Fair</i> and the author of five previous books, including <i>The Big Rich</i> and <i>Public Enemies</i>. A formerreporter for <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>, he is a three-timewinner of the John Hancock Award for excellence infinancial journalism.

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