![]() ![]() ![]() We didn’t know what to do.” So why hasn’t that happened again? What would it take to turn the white left into hardcore bombers today?Īmerican Subversive is the latest book to take on this interesting question, appealing to a progressive desire for vengeance in the wake of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Cheney revolution. In an excellent, eponymous 2004 documentary about the ‘70s radical group, former members try to explain: “The Vietnam War made us crazy,” says one another describes how the images from that war and what it meant about America was “knowledge that we just couldn’t handle it was too big. Why don’t real lefties bomb and kill? Unless you count the Unabomber-and how can you really?-the white American left hasn’t really blown anything up since the 1970s, when the Weather Underground, who feature prominently in American Subversive, David Goodwillie’s first novel, bombed two dozen government buildings in protest of the Vietnam War. ![]() Part I: Four reasons why you should read American Subversive. ![]()
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