Thai Jones: 3 books
A Radical Line
From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
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 Underground and grandson of Communists, spiritual pacifists, and civil rights...
More Powerful Than Dynamite
Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
In the year that saw the start of World War I, the United States was itself on the verge of revolution: industrial depression in the east, striking coal miners in Colorado, and increasingly tense relations with Mexico. "There was blood in the air that year," a witness later recalled, "there truly...
My Midnight Years
Surviving Jon Burge's Police Torture Ring and Death Row
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Ronald Kitchen was 21, on his way to buy milk for his four-year-old, when he was picked up by the Chicago police, brutally tortured, and coerced to confess to five counts of heinous murder. He spent 22 years in prison, 13 of those on death row, labeled as a monster. Kitchen was only one of the many...