Table of Contents
Author's Note xi
Cast of Characters xvii
Prologue 1
1 "The Revolution Ain't Tomorrow. It's Now. You Dig?": Sam Melville and the Birth of the American Underground 9
2 "Negroes with Guns": Black Rage and the Road to Revolution 26
Part 1 Weatherman
3 "You Say You Want a Revolution": The Movement and the Emergence of Weatherman 55
4 "As to Killing People, We Were Prepared to Do That": Weatherman, January to March 1970 87
5 The Townhouse: Weatherman, March to June 1970 106
6 "Responsible Terrorism": Weatherman, June 1970 to October 1970 132
7 The Wrong Side of History: Weatherman and the FBI, October 1970 to April 1971 152
Part 2 The Black Liberation Army
8 "An Army of Angry Niggas": The Birth of the Black Liberation Army, Spring 1971 173
9 The Rise of the BLA: The Black Liberation Army, June 1971 to February 1972 199
10 "We Got Pretty Small": The Weather Underground and the FBI, 1971-72 218
11 Blood in the Streets of Babylon: The Black Liberation Army, 1973 236
Part 3 The Second Wave
12 The Dragon Unleashed: The Rise of the Symbionese Liberation Army, November 1973 to February 1974 259
13 "Patty Has Been Kidnapped": The Symbionese Liberation Army, February to May 1974 284
14 What Patty Hearst Wrought: The Rise of the Post-SLA Underground 304
15 "The Belfast of North America": Patty Hearst, the SLA, and the Mad Bombers of San Francisco 333
16 Hard Times: The Death of the Weather Underground 361
17 "Welcome to Fear City": The FALN, 1976 to 1978 380
18 "Armed Revolutionary Love": The Odyssey of Ray Levasseur 407
19 Bombs and Diapers: Ray Levasseur's Odyssey, Part II 425
Part 4 Out with a Bang
20 The Family: The Pan-Radical Alliance, 1977 to 1979 447
21 Jailbreaks and Captures: The Family and the FALN, 1979-80 471
22 The Scales of Justice: Trials, Surrenders, and the Family, 1980-81 492
23 The Last Revolutionaries: The United Freedom Front, 1981 to 1984 513
Epilogue 537
Acknowledgments 549
A Note on Sources 553
Notes 557
Bibliography 561
Index 569