Fugitive Days: A Memoir by Bill Ayers Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Fugitive Days: A Memoir
Book Review: Thouhts of a left wing weasel.
Summary: 1 Stars
Bill Ayers is a despicable human being and murderer. The fact that he is still a free man demonstrates the degree to which the "Hate America" left operates within this country. Please DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THE SELF SERVING MUSINGS OF A TERRORIST. I'm sure he was delighted with the events of 9/11. Probably wishes he'd been involved.Book Review: Uncovering illusions...
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great story about the life of a very interesting man. I highly recommend it.Book Review: Weathermen continue under cover
Summary: 1 Stars
Fugitive DaysThe new looks of Radical Weathermen are as "Distinguished Professors" and Legal Clinic Directors. Ayers makes the limp excuse after the WTC bombing that "..we are witnessing crimes against humanity" to distinguish his and Dohrn's actions from those of later day bombers. Isn't that what his bombings of police stations, the Pentagon, and Capitol building represented? Were these lives less important to their families? One thing we've learned in the last few days is that people can blend into our society and then resurface as terrorists. How do we know that Ayers and Dohrn aren't waiting for their next destructive opportunities, and certainly use their positions of trust to do further damage to society?
The University of Illinois and Northwestern University should reexamine their standards for those who can corrupt the minds of our young people.
Book Review: You don't need a Weatherman....
Summary: 1 Stars
Bill Ayers, former '60s revolutionary-turned-college-professor, offers us his memoirs of that tumultous time and explains to us why America is still a disgusting, fascist nation where dissidents are paid huge advances for preeening autobiographies and have to suffer the idignity of worshipful profiles in the New York Times. The Weathermen, as Ayers' comrades were known, were infamous for bombing what he calls "symbols" of American imperialism and capitalism. Don't mistake this for terrorism though, because terrorists try to kill innocents whereas Ayers was going after -- well, "symbols." Comments like that, in all their arrogance, are perfect examples of why -- following Ayers' "revolution" -- America made such an abrupt turn from the ultra-liberalism of the '60s and '70s to the ultra-conservatism of the '80s. Though nobody ever wants to seem to admit this, the radical politics of the '60s was built on a grad school elitism which left its proponents convinced of their own educated sainthood and, in their eyes, reduced the "working man" and minorities to the demeaning status of the "noble savage." And of course, since the radicals were all saints, anyone who disagreed with them had to be thoroughly demonic. Of course, a lot of other people who opposed the Viet Nam War or were outraged by Nixon didn't share these views and, once those afermentioned events took the "new left" to a position of power, they reacted to that overeducated ignorance by electing men like Ronald Reagan and further upsetting Bill Ayers.
But, anyway, politics aside, this is just a remarkably self-righteous autobiography. For a man who claims to have been fighting for the people, Bill Ayers comes across as remarkably self-centered. The centerpiece of the book seems to the dark day in 1970 when three of his comrades managed to blow themselves up while making a bomb in their Greenwich Village Townhouse. Ayers returns to the event but strangely, let's us know little about the martyrs in question except how their deaths related to him. (And, of course, it never seems strange to him that the Weatherman revolution was based in a townhouse that most "oppressed" Americans would never be able to afford.) The man comes across as a narcissistic sociopath who found, in radical politics, an outlet for a basically unbalanced personality. Ayers, at one point, brags that he's "guilty as sin, free as a bird." Yes, luckily for him, Bill Ayers doesn't live in the type of society that the Weathermen advocated; a society like Castro's Cuba where anyone showing dissent can be executed without trial. No, he lives in America, one of the few countries that will protect you even as you try to destroy it. One friend of mine told me that if Bill Ayers hates America so much, he should just leave it. Ayers, unlike other revolutionaries across the world, actually has the option of leaving if he wants to. He has that freedom and even if he's apparently too arrogant and, quite frankly, stupid to appreciate it, that still doesn't keep that freedom from being all the more beautiful and wonderful.
Book Review: Young bomber, not dreamer
Summary: 1 Stars
Sanctimonious piece of garbage from from the [name] of his day...no, he was worse, he wanted to kill his own...and now he wants us to see what a martyr he and his ilk were and make money off it to boot. ... this book, then burn it. And don't miss Stud's "glowing young dreamer who tried to live elegantly" nauseating cover blurb...