{"product_id":"underground","title":"Underground","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Honest and funny, passionate and contrite, meticulously researched and deeply philosophical: an essential document on the '60s.\" --\u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMark 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 \u003cem\u003eUnderground. \u003c\/em\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53017896878400,"sku":"9780061472763","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/8912\/3648\/files\/imageloader_ec009d95-b141-4a59-89b1-f8cf36ea4c40.jpg?v=1786546804","url":"https:\/\/silverstreetbooks.com\/products\/underground","provider":"silverstreetbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}