Radical Descent
The cultivation of an American Revolutionary
Will be published approx. on 3. February 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
250 pages
978-1-888889-74-1 (ISBN)
Description
In her debut memoir, Coleman reveals an intimate account of her choice to join a revolutionary underground guerrilla cell in the 1970's. This turbulent time in America has lessons for all of us in an age of domestic terrorism headlining the news today.
What begins with her youthful idealism and intent to amend the "sins" of her blueblood ancestors soon becomes a firestorm of events that includes the activities of a local police "death squad", the vicious rape of a co-worker, an attack on a radical bookstore, Ku Klux Klan threats, friends found to be on the 10 MOST WANTED list, her choice to bear arms, donate large sums of money, and transport explosives for a cadre with increasingly questionable motives. The unrelenting series of events that unfold inextricably land her many years later as a witness in one of the longest sedition trials in US history.
Terrorist or freedom fighter? That becomes the readers question to answer just as it becomes Coleman's question as well.
What begins with her youthful idealism and intent to amend the "sins" of her blueblood ancestors soon becomes a firestorm of events that includes the activities of a local police "death squad", the vicious rape of a co-worker, an attack on a radical bookstore, Ku Klux Klan threats, friends found to be on the 10 MOST WANTED list, her choice to bear arms, donate large sums of money, and transport explosives for a cadre with increasingly questionable motives. The unrelenting series of events that unfold inextricably land her many years later as a witness in one of the longest sedition trials in US history.
Terrorist or freedom fighter? That becomes the readers question to answer just as it becomes Coleman's question as well.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Wainscott, NY
United States
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-888889-74-1 (9781888889741)
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Person
Linda Coleman teaches memoir writing for incarcerated women and has co-edited three volumes of their memoirs. She also works as a nurse and will soon be ordained as a Zen priest.