Stuart Coop

It was in a discount.

That is big.

It is big and it was in a discount bin and I saw it.

It said, Days of Rage, America's Radical Underground, the FBI and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence.

It's a very...

By Brian Burrow.

And I was like there.

But I bought it thinking, oh, this looks really interesting.

But I just devoured the whole thing because I'd heard about the weathermen.

You know, we'd heard Bob Dylan sing, you know, you don't need the weathermen to say which way the weather, you know, wind blows or whatever.

And I, you know, and I knew a little bit about the Black Panthers and all of the other revolutionary groups.

But I really didn't

know what motivated them and again the sort of almost vulnerable individuals who thought that you know they wanted to belong they wanted to be part of of something and if that was you know following a particular political uh philosophy of the time and if it was you know unsurping this amorphous

power structure that was epitomized by, you know, Nixon and everything else that was going on, then that's what they were going to do.

And that's where we got, you know, Patty Hearst going off and, you know, touting, you know, the shotgun and robbing banks and being cornered in

in Los Angeles.

And so this book to me was just, it was everything that I'd heard little bits about.

But, you know, suddenly I knew the difference between, you know, the Simbanese Liberation Army, the FALN and the Black Liberation Army, you know, and the fact that in their way, they were also disparate.

I mean, there was no unity.

This was just random.