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The political memoir as rousing adventure story--a sizzling account of a life lived in the thick of every important struggle of the era.
April 1973: snow falls thick and fast on the Badlands of South Dakota. It has been more than five weeks since protesting Sioux Indians seized their historic village of Wounded Knee, and the FBI shows no signs of abandoning its siege. When Bill Zimmerman is asked to coordinate an airlift of desperately needed food and medical supplies, he cannot refuse; flying through gunfire and a mechanical malfunction, he carries out a daring dawn raid and success-fully parachutes 1,500 pounds of food into the village. The drop breaks the FBI siege, and assures an Indian victory.
This was not the first--or last--time Bill Zimmerman put his life at risk for the greater social good. In this extraordi-nary memoir, Zimmerman takes us into the hearts and minds of those making the social revolution of the sixties. He writes about registering black voters in deepest, most racist Mississippi; marching with Martin Luther King Jr. in Chicago; helping to organize the 1967 march on the Pentagon; fighting the police at the 1968 Democratic con-vention; mobilizing scientists against the Vietnam War and the military's misuse of their discoveries; smuggling medi-cines to the front lines in North Vietnam; spending time in Hanoi under U.S. bombardment; and founding an interna-tional charity, Medical Aid for Indochina, to deliver humanitarian assistance. Zimmerman--who crossed paths with political organizers and activists like Abbie Hoffman, Daniel Ellsberg, Cesar Chavez, Jane Fonda, and Tom Hayden--captures a groundbreaking zeitgeist that irrevoca-bly changed the world as we knew it.

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@lt;p@gt;@lt;b@gt;Advance Praise for @lt;i@gt;Troublemaker@lt;/i@gt; @lt;/b@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; @lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; A riveting book. Bill Zimmerman is a shining example of Tom Paine's 'winter soldier, ' a patriot his country can count on in dark times to help it end a disastrous policy or realize its highest ideals. The war in Viet Nam, catastrophe that it was, brought out the best in many Americans, he among them. This is an inspiring story of a life committed to a better world. And, what a life! What a story! @lt;br@gt;@lt;b@gt;--Daniel Ellsberg@lt;/b@gt;@lt;br@gt; @lt;br@gt; Bill Zimmerman gives the lie to the old saw that if you remember the '60s you weren't there. He was there and he remembers. He spent the '60s making trouble from Mississippi to South Dakota to North Vietnam. You don't have to agree with his politics to agree he has written one hell of a page-turner. @lt;br@gt;@lt;b@gt;--Paul Begala, CNN Political Consultant@lt;/b@gt;@lt;br@gt; @lt;br@gt; Bill Zimmerman's me

<p>Advance Praise for Troublemaker <br> <br> A riveting book. Bill Zimmerman is a shining example of Tom Paine's 'winter soldier, ' a patriot his country can count on in dark times to help it end a disastrous policy or realize its highest ideals. The war in Viet Nam, catastrophe that it was, brought out the best in many Americans, he among them. This is an inspiring story of a life committed to a better world. And, what a life! What a story! <br>--Daniel Ellsberg <br> Bill Zimmerman gives the lie to the old saw that if you remember the '60s you weren't there. He was there and he remembers. He spent the '60s making trouble from Mississippi to South Dakota to North Vietnam. You don't have to agree with his politics to agree he has written one hell of a page-turner. <br>--Paul Begala, CNN Political Consultant <br> Bill Zimmerman's memoir is a great adventure story since he managed to be engaged in many of the dramatic scenes of civil rights and antiwar struggle in the si

<p>Praise for Troublemaker: <br> For almost half a century Bill Zimmerman has labored with intensity for progressive causes as an organizer and political consultant. In this new memoir he looks back on his career with an unwavering commitment to his beliefs and an admirable intellectual toughness and pragmatism.... He has been a key player on dozens of issues including Wounded Knee, Central America, Harold Washington's mayoral campaign and medical marijuana initiatives and fought with MoveOn.org against the Iraq War. His tense and harrowing account of literally risking his life by flying an airplane to drop food to the besieged American Indian Movement at Wounded Knee gives the book a drama not found in typical ideological memoirs... [His] is a unique and strong voice. Troublemaker is a well-written, passionate story of a personal journey through the Vietnam protest era, and a valuable model for progressive activists of our own time. --Danny Goldberg, TheNation.com <br> A

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BILL ZIMMERMAN, who holds a doctorate in psy-chology from the University of Chicago, is one of the nation's most experienced political consul-tants. As cofounder of the leading consulting firm Zimmerman & Markman, whose work for ballot initiatives and for organizations such as the ACLU, NRDC, and MoveOn.org has won multiple awards, he continues to advocate for social justice. He lives in Topanga, California.

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