TY - BOOK ID - 78643160 TI - Bad Moon Rising PY - 2016 SN - 0300224605 9780300224603 9780300221183 0300221185 PB - [Place of publication not identified] DB - UniCat KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism. KW - Weather Underground Organization. KW - Weatherman (Organization) KW - Prairie Fire Organizing Committee KW - Weatherman Underground KW - Weather Underground KW - Weathermen (Organization) KW - WUO UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78643160 AB - A startling history of the forlorn war between the Weather Underground and the FBI, based on interviews and 30,000 pages of previously unreleased FBI documents In the summer of 1970 and for years after, photos of Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeff Jones, and other members of the Weather Underground were emblazoned on FBI wanted posters. In Bad Moon Rising, Arthur Eckstein details how Weather began to engage in serious, ideologically driven, nationally coordinated political violence and how the FBI attempted to monitor, block, and capture its members-and failed. Eckstein further shows that the FBI ordered its informants inside Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to support the faction that became Weather during the tumultuous June 1969 SDS convention, helping to destroy the organization; and that the FBI first underestimated Weather's seriousness, then overestimated its effectiveness, and how Weather outwitted them. Eckstein reveals how an obsessed and panicked President Nixon and his inner circle sought to bypass a cautious J. Edgar Hoover, contributing to the creation of the rogue Plumbers Unit that eventually led to Watergate. ER -