Underground

<p><strong>Honest and funny passionate and contrite meticulously researched and deeply philosophical: an essential document on the '60s. --<em>Washington Post</em></strong> </p><p><strong>Mark Rudd former '60s radical student leader and onetime fugitive member of the notorious Weather Underground tells his compelling and engrossing story for the first time in <em>Underground. </em>The chairman of the SDS and leader of the 1968 student uprising at Columbia University Rudd offers a gripping narrative of his political awakening and fugitive life during one of the most influential periods in modern U.S. history.</strong></p><p>In 1968 Mark Rudd led the legendary occupation of five buildings at Columbia University a dramatic act of protest against the university's support for the Vietnam War and its institutional racism. The charismatic chairman of the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society--the largest radical student organization in the United States--Rudd went on to become a national symbol of student revolt and co-founded the Weathermen faction of SDS which helped organize the notorious Days of Rage in Chicago in 1969.</p><p>But Mark Rudd wanted revolution seeking to end war racism and injustice by any means necessary--even violence. By the end of 1970 he was one of the FBI's Most Wanted--and after a string of nonlethal bombings he went into hiding for more than seven years before turning himself in to great media fanfare.</p>