{"product_id":"troubled-times-kevin-galvin-9781684583331","title":"Troubled Times: The Boston Courthouse Bombing of 1976","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterweaves the stories of a revolutionary and a bombing victim to explore the roots and unintended consequences of political violence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1976. The Vietnam War had ended, but radical political groups still operated clandestinely throughout the United States. Nowhere was the threat of civil unrest greater than in Boston. Racial tensions had been building since a federal judge ordered the desegregation of the Boston Public Schools, and civic leaders were counting on the pageantry of the nation's Bicentennial to boost both tourism and investment. In April, the Sam Melville-Jonathan Jackson Unit, prison reformers schooled in Marxism and angered by US interventions abroad, bombed the Suffolk County Courthouse, injuring twenty-two people. The site of the blast marked the spot where the lives of two men intersected: a mill town kid who'd been radicalized in Vietnam and prison, and an immigrant waiting in line because he needed to renew a cab license.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifty years after the bombing shook the city, \u003ci\u003eTroubled Times\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of lives changed by political violence at a time when the American experiment is again in crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kevin Galvin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1684583330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781684583331\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brandeis University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Kevin Galvin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48517149131007,"sku":"9781684583331","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_720408ef-2b5b-4ad6-baf4-3e28288c731b.jpg?v=1778730234","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/troubled-times-kevin-galvin-9781684583331","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}