Guerrilla USA: The George Jackson Brigade and the Anticapitalist Underground of the 1970s (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520264298)

"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 complex light. 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.

Author: Daniel Burton-Rose
ISBN-10: 0520264290
ISBN-13: 9780520264298
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 06/24/2010
Pages: 358
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2011