Bryan Burroughis a special correspondentatVanity Fairand the author of five previous books,includingThe Big RichandPublic Enemies. A formerreporter forthe Wall Street Journal, he is a three-timewinner of the Gerald Loeb Award for excellence infinancial journalism.
Boston Globe:
“Burrough has interviewed dozens of people to compile what is
surely the most comprehensive examination of ‘70s-era American
terrorism . . . Burrough, a longtime Vanity Fair correspondent,
recalls story after story of astonishing heists, murders, orgies,
and wiretaps. Few of his subjects are sympathetic, but all are
vividly drawn. He refrains from making moral judgments, which makes
the material he presents all the more powerful . . . this book is
as likely as a definitive history of Vietnam-era political violence
as we are ever likely to get.”
Washington Post:
“[A] rich and important history. . . deep and sweeping. . . .
wide-ranging and often revelatory interviews with many
Weather alumni.”
LA Times:
“Impressively researched and deeply engrossing."
Seattle Times:
“In “Days of Rage,” Bryan Burrough, author of “Public Enemies,”
provides a fascinating look at an almost forgotten era of homegrown
terrorism . . . . The book is utterly captivating, coupling
careful historical research with breathless accounts of the
bombings and the perpetrators’ narrow escapes.”
Chicago Tribune:
“Burrough's scholarly pursuit of archival documents and oral
histories does not result in an academic tome. Stories are told in
a compelling, novelistic fashion, and Burrough doesn't have to
stretch to get plenty of sex and violence onto the pages. The
descriptions of bloody shootouts and bodies dismembered in bombings
are impressively vivid. If you ever wanted to know what it felt
like to be at an awkward Weathermen orgy, here's your chance.”
Vanity Fair:
“Days of Rage is bound to alter the conversation about this crucial
topic of our time.”
History News Network:
“This is a vivid, engrossing, and far-ranging work that provides a
detailed glimpse of a half-dozen underground radical groups in the
Vietnam era and its aftermath ...represents a heroic work of
reportage...His work on the lesser-known revolutionary groups of
the period, such as the Black Liberation Army, is in fact
unprecedented; they never have received such detailed and
exhaustive treatment. And to the extent that he goes over familiar
territory, Burrough does a nice job of demythologizing his
subjects. To his credit, the reader gets warts-and-all portraits
and not hagiography.”
Publishers Weekly:
“Burroughs’s insights are powerful. . . Doggedly pursuing former
radicals who’ve never spoken on the record before,Vanity
Fair special correspondent Burrough (The Big Rich) delivers an
exhaustive history of the mostly ignored period of 1970s domestic
terrorism”
Booklist:
“A fascinating, in-depth look at a tumultuous period of American
unrest.”
Kirkus Reviews:
"A stirring history of that bad time, 45-odd years ago, when we
didn't need a weatherman to know which way the wind was blowing,
though we knew it was loud . . . [DAYS OF RAGE] is thoroughgoing
and fascinating . . . A superb chronicle. . . that sheds light on
how the war on terror is being waged today."
William D. Cohan, author of House of Cards, Money and Power, and
The Price of Silence:
“In spellbinding fashion, Bryan Burrough’s Days of Rage brilliantly
explicates one of the most confounding periods of recent American
history—the era when a web of home-grown radicals and self-styled
anarchists busily plotted the overthrow of the American government.
Rarely has such a subject been matched with a writer and reporter
of Burrough’s extraordinary skill. I could not put the book down;
you won't be able to, either.”
Beverly Gage, Yale University; author of The Day Wall Street
Exploded:
“A fascinating portrait of the all-but-forgotten radical
underground of the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s. Burroughs gives us the
first full picture of a secret world where radical dreams often
ended in personal and political tragedy.”
Mark Harris, author of Pictures at a Revolution and Five Came
Back:
“Bryan Burrough gives the story of America’s armed underground
revolutionaries of the 1960s and 1970s what it has long desperately
needed: Clarity, levelheadedness, context, and reportorial rigor.
He has sifted the embers of an essential conflagration of the
counterculture, found within it a suspenseful and enlightening
history, and told it in a way that is blessedly free of cant or
point-scoring.”
Paul Ingrassia, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Engines of Change
and Crash Course:
“Bryan Burrough has delivered a terrific piece of research,
reportage and storytelling. Those who lived through the period of
America's radical underground, as I did, will be amazed to learn
how much they didn’t.”
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