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The Way the Wind Blew (Haymarket) ReviewThe young activists of the Weather Underground were inspired by the National Liberation Front in Vietnam and the Black Panthers at home. And more than anything else they were fueled by a righteous rage against imperialist, racist `Amerika'. When the dust settled on 20th century history they wanted to be counted on the side of the revolution, not with the oppressors.
The book begins at the end of the 60s with the protests at Columbia University and Weatherman's emergence from the splintering New Left group, Students for a Democratic Society. It follows the group's progress from public protest and pitched battles with police, to its decision to wage war on Amerika as an underground revolutionary movement. Jacobs covers the landmark events in the group's history: the jail break of counter-culture guru Timothy Leary, the bombings of the Pentagon and the Capitol and the eventual death, apprehension and surrender of many of Weather's key members.
It's a sad and disturbing story. It is hard to credit Weather with any lasting positive achievements. They unleased mayhem and destruction in the name of justice but retired from the struggle defeated. One of most harrowing episodes in the book is the Greewich Village townhouse explosion. The result of an accident, it killed three of Weather's members (Diana Oughton, Ted Gold and Terry Robins). The group were building bombs out of dynamite and nails when one exploded, destroying the building and sending the two survivors, Cathy Wilkerson and Kathy Boudin, running half naked into the street. The book's photographs are a reminder of how young the three activists must have been at the time they died.
Jacobs states his sympathies up front. He writes that he "admired [Weather's] style and its ability to hit targets which in my view deserved to be hit." But even as an inspired observer he admits that even he doesn't understand the group's politics. Jacobs is objective enough to cover some of the less flattering moments in Weather's history. For example, although she's depicted like movie star on the front cover, between the pages Weather spokeswoman Bernadine Dohrn is caught gloating over the Manson murders in a 1969 speech.
The major shortcoming of the book is a lack of fresh first-hand material. Jacobs' sources seem to have been mostly archival. I finshed the book wanting to know what Weather's survivors thought now about the riots, the bombings and their years underground. I wanted a glimpse inside their heads, to understand a little of what they thought they were going to achieve.
If you want to know what the Weather Underground was, what it did, and what happened to its members, this book gives a history from begining to end. No other book does that. But if you want to know what it all means, you're going to have to figure that out for yourself.The Way the Wind Blew (Haymarket) Overview

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