Thomas_K

I found this a good read. It kept my interest throughout and I recommend it. It lives up to its description on the back cover. I was in high school in the 60s, so I was familiar with the events of this period, but not the details. It was especially interesting, and unnerving as well, to see that the issues that motivated people back then are happening now. Are protesters criminals? And when is the line crossed from one to the other? Whoever said that history repeats itself, not exactly, but in every other way, was a very insightful person, at least in my lifetime it seems so. The book has some detailed bits here and there throughout, such as, who was 5 year old Marion Delgado, and why was he so inspirational to the most violent arm of the SDS, the Weathermen? And where did that name come from? For what it's worth, reading this book brought to mind three other books I read recently that had similarities that kept coming to mind as I read: The Nix by Nathan Hill, Chicago '68 by David Farber, and The Korean War by Max Hastings. It's interesting to learn how a person can be on the FBI's most wanted list for years, be aggressively hunted down the entire time by hundreds and hundreds of highly trained agents, and not be caught, and then walk away free as the case is thrown out of court.