Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young by Zayd Ayers Dohrn review – child of the revolution

The son of fugitive leaders of the militant Weather Underground recounts his chaotic, peripatetic upbringing Every aspect of a family’s life will seem normal to the small children within it; only hindsight can bring what was abnormal into relief. Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s earliest years were spent on the run from the FBI; his parents were members of the revolutionary Weather Underground faction, a group dedicated to the overthrow of the US government. By the age of three he had been coached by his p...

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