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Days of Rage

Disciplines:
american history
politics/radical politics
history/1970s terrorism

Summary

Bryan Burrough's 2015 history of American domestic terrorism in the 1970s — covering the Weather Underground, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the FALN, and other radical groups who carried out hundreds of bombings.

Core Contribution

Documents the largely forgotten history of widespread 1970s American domestic terrorism — demonstrating that political violence by domestic radical groups was far more prevalent than modern Americans remember — providing historical context for understanding contemporary radicalization.

Historical Influences

Bryan Burrough

Intellectual Lineage

American Political History Investigative Journalism Left-Wing Radicalism History

Allied Works

The Anarchist CookbookPrairie Fire

Contemporaries & Peers

The Looming TowerUnderground

Minds Influenced

Understanding of domestic political violenceMW political history content

Intellectual Posterity

1970s domestic terrorism history

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