Bad Moon Rising: How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution
Arthur M. Eckstein examines the Weather Underground’s rise, its confrontation with the FBI, and the political forces surrounding its revolutionary ambitions. This focused history explores the organization’s struggle against American state power and considers how its campaign ultimately failed to achieve the revolution it sought.
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Bad Moon Rising explores the history of the Weather Underground, a radical organization associated with the American revolutionary movement.
Arthur M. Eckstein focuses on the group’s conflict with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the broader political environment surrounding that struggle.
The book considers how the Weather Underground pursued revolutionary change, confronted state power, and eventually lost the revolution it sought to advance.
Combining political history with the story of a notable domestic conflict, this work offers a focused examination of protest, militancy, and the limits of revolutionary action in the United States.
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