Through the bestselling writer of Public Enemies and The Big Rich, an explosive account of the decade-long battle between your FBI and the homegrown revolutionary movements of the 1970s

The Weathermen. The Symbionese Liberation Military. The FALN. The Black Liberation Army. The names seem quaint now, when not forgotten completely. But there is a extend of amount of time in America, through the 1970s, when bombings by home underground groups had been a daily incident. The FBI about Times of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, as well as the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence combated these organizations while others as nodes within a revolutionary underground, focused on the violent overthrow of the American government.

The FBI’s response to the leftist revolutionary counterculture is not treated kindly by history, and in hindsight a lot of its efforts seem nearly comically ineffectual, if not criminal in themselves. But part of the incredible accomplishment of Bryan Burrough’s Days of Rage is usually to temper those easy judgments with a knowledge of just how deranged this period were, how billed with menace. Burrough re-creates an atmosphere that seems almost unbelievable simply forty years afterwards, conjuring a period of native-born radicals, many of them “nice middle-class kids,” smuggling bombs into skyscrapers and detonating them in the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, at a Boston courthouse and a Wall structure Street restaurant packed with lunchtime diners-radicals robbing a large number of banking institutions and assassinating policemen in NY, San Francisco, Atlanta. The FBI, prompted to do everything possible to undermine the radical underground, itself broke many laws in its attempts to bring the revolutionaries to justice-often with disastrous consequences.

Profiting from the extraordinary amount of people in the underground and the FBI who speak about their encounters for the first time, Days of Rage can be filled up with revelations and fresh information regarding the major revolutionaries and their connections and about the FBI and its desperate efforts to make the bombings end. The result is a mesmerizing reserve that requires us into the hearts and thoughts of homegrown terrorists and federal agents alike and weaves their stories right into a spellbinding secret history of the 1970s.