{"product_id":"fugitive-days-isbn-9780807032770","title":"Fugitive Days","description":"Bill Ayers was born into privilege and is today a highly respected educator. In the late 1960s he was a young pacifist who helped to found one of the most radical political organizations in U.S. history, the Weather Underground. In a new era of antiwar activism and suppression of protest, his story, \u003ci\u003eFugitive Days\u003c\/i\u003e, is more poignant and relevant than ever.[Ayers's] memoir is a breath of fresh air in this self-absorbed age. Ayers discusses his reservations about the use of violence to achieve an end to violence (reservations he held then as well), but he is unrepentant in believing that . . . right-minded people have an obligation to resist unjust wars. . . . There are many lessons still to be learned from such narratives. Recommended.—David Keymer, \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] gripping and provocative story . . . What is most remarkable about this dramatic and revelatory personal and social history are the always urgent questions it raises about compassion and freedom, responsibility and community, and the conundrum of how to bring about much-needed change.\"—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A challenging, moving, and troubling account . . . Ayers writes well, lyrically, passionately.\"—Andrea Behr, \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A memoir that is, in effect, a deeply moving elegy to all those young dreamers who tried to live decently in an indecent world. Ayers provides a tribute to those better angels of ourselves.\"—Studs Terkel, author of \u003ci\u003eWorking\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Good War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With considerable wit, no small amount of remorse, and an anger that smolders still across the decades, Bill Ayers tells the story of his quintessentially American trip through the 1960s. That it is written in a consistently absorbing style with many passages of undiluted brilliance only adds to its appeal.—Thomas Frank, author of \u003ci\u003eOne Market Under God\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhat's the Matter with Kansas?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A gripping account . . . Ayers describes well the deep emotions that inflamed the '60s.\"—John Patrick Diggins, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a precious book, not simply because it offers a gripping personal account of the primal American suspense story of life on the run, but, more important, because it recreates a critical point of view and way of thinking that we seem, even a few decades later, barely able to recall.\"—Scott Turow, author of \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Heroes\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUltimate Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It's been a long time since American political culture last leftward . . . Extremists of the left have all but disappeared, while extremists of the right are as common as mushrooms after rain . . . Ayers has a knack for capturing the spirit of his times . . . It's a fascinating story.\"—Jean Dubail, \u003ci\u003eCleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Finally, here is an irresistibly readable book that answers the question, How did a nice suburban boy go from the ordinary pleasures of his class to the Days of Rage and beyond? Bill Ayers not only makes this exalting and painful journey comprehensible, he peoples it with sympathetic family, friends, and lovers, and moves us with his candor.\"—Rosellen Brown, author of \u003ci\u003eBefore and After\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHalf a Heart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Terrific . . . This memoir rings of hard-learned truth and integrity and is an important contribution to literature on 1960s culture and American radicalism.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What makes \u003ci\u003eFugitive Days\u003c\/i\u003e unique is its unsparing detail and its marvelous human coherence and integrity. Bill Ayers's America and his family background, his education, his political awakening, his anger and involvement, his anguished re-emergence from the shadows: all these are rendered in their truth without a trace of nostalgia or 'second thinking.' For anyone who cares about the sorry mess we are in, this book is essential, indeed necessary, reading.\"—Edward W. Said, author of \u003ci\u003eReflections on Exile\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOut of Place\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This remarkable memoir gives us the visceral experience of being on the run. Ayers writes with eloquence and irony. This is one man's amazingly honest, authentic, and gripping testament—and a helluva story it makes.\"—Phillip Lopate, author of \u003ci\u003ePortrait of My Body\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A wild and painful ride in the savage years of the late sixties. A very good book about a terrifying time in America.\"—Hunter S. Thompson, author of \u003ci\u003eFear and Loathing in Las Vegas\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHell's Angels\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"For anyone who wants to think hard about the social conflagration the Vietnam War produced in the U.S., and more generally about a citizen's obligations in troubled times, Ayers's powerful, morally charged account of a life and a society in the political balance is provocative reading.\"—David Farber, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eBill Ayers\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the acclaimed and controversial memoir \u003ci\u003eFugitive Days\u003c\/i\u003e, its follow up \u003ci\u003ePublic Enemy\u003c\/i\u003e, and many books on education, including \u003ci\u003eTo Teach\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTeaching Toward Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Kind and Just Parent\u003c\/i\u003e.  He is the founder of the Small Schools Workshop and was, until his  retirement, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University  Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He lives in Hyde Park,  Chicago.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303700451557,"sku":"NP9780807032770","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807032770.jpg?v=1767727776","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/fugitive-days-isbn-9780807032770","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}