What We Are Reading: October 2022

Short reviews of Days of Rage, by Bryan Burrough, and All the World's Mornings, by Pascal Quignard . . .

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“The mythology is that the group was … utterly disconnected from the “legitimate” part of the antiwar left ” That is simply not true–does the author claim that the thugs at weatherman had some secret connection with Catholic Worker or for that matter “RYM 2” or even someone like Abbie Hoffman? There was plenty wrong with the anti war movement but connection with weatherman was not one of them save in isolated cases. What is interesting about weatherman (and here they do share a commonality with the broader movement) is that most of them went on to be Obama loving gentry. That is the real secret enormity of the 60’s. Ayers and Dohrn went on to join the professoriate as did Boudin upon her release from prison. They have destroyed our universities and other important institutions. I would argue that most of the 60’s left was never a proper left but that is a long conversation.

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