The Resource Swords in the hands of children : reflections of an American revolutionary, Jonathan Lerner
Swords in the hands of children : reflections of an American revolutionary, Jonathan Lerner
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- Summary
- This crisp, contemplative memoir of an American radical arrives at a moment of surging activism and rage. It is essential reading for progressives struggling with how to act and survive in the Age of Trump. Against the vividly evoked chaos and conflicts of the Vietnam Era, Jonathan Lerner probes the impulses that led a small group of educated, privileged young Americans to turn to violence as a means of political change. Beyond that, he tells the true story of an intellectually adventurous but insecure gay man immersed in the macho, misogynistic and physically confrontational environment of the Weathermen. Variously known as the Weather Underground, the Weathermen, or Weatherman, the group unleashed a series of bombings across the United States, attacking the Pentagon, the Capitol Building, and the U.S. State Department, among many other places. At its height, the organization consisted of several hundred people, all committed to violent change and toe-to-toe battles with the police. Inventing himself first as "minister of propaganda" for a movement -- and along the way participating in the Venceremos Brigade in Cuba and observing the Native American uprising at Wounded Knee -- and then reinventing himself as high-rolling gay hustler, Lerner recounts a wild and utterly American journey from idealism to destruction and beyond. Other Weatherpeople have written memoirs; none has explored the painful history of the consequential group with such penetrating honesty. -- from Amazon.com
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- eng
- Label
- Swords in the hands of children : reflections of an American revolutionary
- Title
- Swords in the hands of children
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- reflections of an American revolutionary
- Statement of responsibility
- Jonathan Lerner
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- trueViolence
- Weather Underground Organization -- History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This crisp, contemplative memoir of an American radical arrives at a moment of surging activism and rage. It is essential reading for progressives struggling with how to act and survive in the Age of Trump. Against the vividly evoked chaos and conflicts of the Vietnam Era, Jonathan Lerner probes the impulses that led a small group of educated, privileged young Americans to turn to violence as a means of political change. Beyond that, he tells the true story of an intellectually adventurous but insecure gay man immersed in the macho, misogynistic and physically confrontational environment of the Weathermen. Variously known as the Weather Underground, the Weathermen, or Weatherman, the group unleashed a series of bombings across the United States, attacking the Pentagon, the Capitol Building, and the U.S. State Department, among many other places. At its height, the organization consisted of several hundred people, all committed to violent change and toe-to-toe battles with the police. Inventing himself first as "minister of propaganda" for a movement -- and along the way participating in the Venceremos Brigade in Cuba and observing the Native American uprising at Wounded Knee -- and then reinventing himself as high-rolling gay hustler, Lerner recounts a wild and utterly American journey from idealism to destruction and beyond. Other Weatherpeople have written memoirs; none has explored the painful history of the consequential group with such penetrating honesty. -- from Amazon.com
- Biography type
- autobiography
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- 10612761
- Cataloging source
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- 1948-
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- Lerner, Jonathan
- Dewey number
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- 303.48/4092
- B
- Illustrations
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- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- Lerner, Jonathan
- Weather Underground Organization
- Revolutionaries
- Subversive activities
- Political activists
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- reflections of an American revolutionary
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- Swords in the hands of children : reflections of an American revolutionary, Jonathan Lerner
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- ocn988400527
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 213 pages
- Isbn
- 9781944869472
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- (OCoLC)988400527
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- 21 cm
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- 213 pages
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- 9781944869472
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- unmediated
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- n
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- illustrations
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- (OCoLC)988400527
Subject
- trueCloseted gay men
- trueDisillusionment in men
- trueDomestic terrorism
- trueGay men
- Lerner, Jonathan, 1948-
- truePeace activists
- truePeace movements
- Political activists -- United States -- 20th century -- Biography
- trueRadical organizations
- Revolutionaries -- United States -- 20th century -- Biography
- trueSexuality
- trueSubversive activities -- United States -- 20th century -- History
- trueViolence
- Weather Underground Organization -- History
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