About this title: In this elegant family history, journalist Thai Jones traces the past century of American radical politics through the extraordinary exploits of several generations of his own family.
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Edition: 1st Printing
Binding: Oversized Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press, New York, New York
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780743250276ISBN:0743250273
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Nearly As New, VERY clean tight copy. From a great but of unread titles of local book reviewer. Many contain promo material tipped in from publisher. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S. A
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780743250276ISBN:0743250273
Description: Photographs. New in New jacket. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) said of this book: "One of the best forays into the Days of Rage-event, prequel, and sequel-to have appeared in years. " In this elegant family history, journalist Thai Jones traces the past century of American radical politics through the extraordinary exploits of his own family. Born in the late 1970s to fugitive leaders of the Weather Undergraound and grandson of Communists, spiritual pacificsts, and civil rights agitators, ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780743250276ISBN:0743250273
Description: New, Publisher overstock, may have small remainder mark. Excellent condition, never read, purchased from publisher as excess inventory. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780743250276ISBN:0743250273
Description: New, Publisher overstock, may have small remainder mark. Excellent condition, never read, purchased from publisher as excess inventory. read more
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. JONES, THAI A Radical Line. 1st American hardcover edition / 1st printing. A near fine++ copy in like unclipped jacket. ISBN 0743250273. read more
"Good summary of the development of the Left in America through following the author's family. His father is Jeff Jones, one of the main leaders of the Weather Underground, his mother was in the WU as well, and partipated in the student occupation of Columbia, while his maternal grandparents were in the CP & the labor movement in the 20s & 30s, his maternal grandmother was in the movement to desegregate lunch counter in DC in the 40s (I didn't even know there was a desegregation movement that early on!), his paternal grandfather was a pacifist in the 30s, a conscientious objector sent to a labor camp during WWII, & his maternal grandfather was interrogated by the House of Unamerican Activities in the 50s. He's not blinded to his own family's mistakes--he criticizes the excesses and shortcomings of the American Communist Party, the SDS & the Weather Underground quite freely. He also adds another fascinating narrative by summarizing decades of declassified FBI files on his family. The only thing I could have wished for is some description of the author's own modern activism, to give the book more continuity.
It makes me wish there were more of these kinds of families, so leftist thought and action could be more of a tradition rather than a rebellion. Maybe *I* wish I was born into one of these kinds of families..."
"Jeff Jones and Eleanor Raskin were 2 of the most involved members of the Weather Underground. Both of their families had a long history of involvement in radical activities. This is the story of their family as told by their son, who was just 4 years old when the FBI came and took mommy and daddy, who had been underground and on the run for years. He had never known their real names until then, or even his own. Now he knows the whole story of where he came from, and it's a highly entertaining story, written in vivid detail."
"oooh, another book i really liked! thai jones is the child of eleanor stein & jeff jones, two members of the weather underground. less a memoir than his own family history, he goes all the way back to the early 1900s when his grandmother was born & charts his family's history of political involvement, culminating in 1981 when the FBI busted into his house when he was four years old & arrested his parents. i have a weird fascination with family histories in general, maybe because i really don't know a whole hell of a lot about my own family. & i am especially intrigued by political family histories, because they chart the political developments of an entire country--or a world, in some cases--over a specific period of time & show in the longer view how people are actors within their own lifetimes if they remain cognizant of & engaged in the political context of their lives. everything from labor activism to communist blacklisting to the civil rights movement to anti-war stuff to the spanish civil war--pretty much the radical history of the twentieth century is captured here (some events/causes looming a bit larger than others). i should read this again. it was great. & yeah, obviously it touches on weather underground stuff, because his parents were in it & conceived him & gave birth to him while living as fugitives, but the book serves more to contextualize their political consciences & portray their actions within a greater framework of political awareness than it serves as, like, salacious weather underground intrigue or whatever."
"Thai Jones was 4 year old when his parents, two members of the Weather Underground were arrested during a raid on their Bronx apartment. Jones writes a beautiful memoir tracing his family's history in radical organizing and subversive tactics, from his grandparents involvement from the New Deal to McCarthyism and his parents involvement and leadership with SDS and the Weather Underground."
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