![]() ![]() ![]() The FBI's fevered response included the formation of a secret task force called Squad 47, dedicated to hunting the groups down and rolling them up. Capitol, at a Boston courthouse and a Wall Street restaurant packed with lunchtime diners. In Days of Rage, Bryan Burrough re-creates an atmosphere that seems almost unbelievable just forty years later, conjuring a time of native-born radicals, most of them "nice middle-class kids," smuggling bombs into skyscrapers and detonating them inside the Pentagon and the U.S. The FBI combated these and other groups as nodes in a single revolutionary underground, dedicated to the violent overthrow of the American government. But there was a time in America, during the 1970s, when bombings by domestic underground groups were a daily occurrence. ![]() ![]() The names seem quaint now, when not forgotten altogether. From the bestselling author of Public Enemies and The Big Rich, an explosive account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and the homegrown revolutionary movements of the 1970s ![]()
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