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American Time Bomb Attica Sam Melville and a Son s Search for Answers 1st Edition by Joshua Melville 9781641605465 1641605464

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Author(s): Joshua Melville

ISBN(s): 9781641605472, 1641605472

Edition: 1

File Details: EPUB, 8.45 MB

Year: 2021

Language: English

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Author: Joshua Melville

American Time Bomb
Attica, Sam Melville, and a Son’s Search for Answers

“American Time Bomb is a vital read for this moment. ” —Heather Ann Thompson, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy Few stories are more central to understanding our history of racially biased incarceration and violent social activism than the life of Sam Melville. Melville was both reviled and admired as one of the most feared radicals in post–World War II history. His importance in the 1960s is widely recognized by historians and scholars as epitomizing the controversies, the promise, and the problems of the New Left. This memoir by Melville’s son opens a window into the personal life of a legend, revealing the universal and all-too-human foibles motivating those driven to make change through violence. In the current political climate, at the fiftieth anniversary of the Attica Uprising, this nation grows increasingly interested in the racially biased incarceration and violent social activism that has shaped our nation. There are few stories more central to both subjects than the life of Sam Melville, who was often called “the Mad Bomber.” American Time Bomb is a son’s personal portrait based on years of investigation of Melville’s story and the history he helped to create. Joshua Melville’s personal connection to the story gives a gut-wrenching multigenerational tale of childhood abandonment but also adds a compelling historical study of politics, history, and issues of social justice.

Table contents:

Part I: Chrysalis
1. A Weatherman Appears in My Living Room
2. The Columbia Gateway Drug
3. Hoover’s “Black Problem”
4. From Wall Street to Bleecker Street
5. “He Left You His Eyes”
6. Rogue
7. Judith Regan
Part II: The State Is Our Enemy
8. The Sonorous Baritone of William Kunstler
9. The Collegiate and the Collective
10. Bombers and Besties
11. Canadian Terrorists?
12. A Penitent Yippie Appears at Folk City
13. Rat and the Masturbators
14. The FBI’s Bomb Expert
15. BOOM!
16. Children of the Revolution
Part III: Mother Right
17. …And Jane
18. An Explosion in Foley Square
19. Two Mothers, Two Truths
20. It Was a Great Night for the Revolution
21. Rewards for the Wicked
22. Fink’s Bag-o-Marbles
Part IV: White Man’s Rules
23. The Attica Brothers
24. Uprising
25. A Surprise Ally
26. Trouble at the Factory
27. “Their Throats Were Slashed”
28. Kunstler and the Observers
29. Raiding Fink’s Bunker
30. September 13, 9:05 am
31. Three Truths That Tell a Lie
32. The Verdict
33. Beautiful Things