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Customer Reviews:
RADS: the controversy
By A Customer - June 8, 1999RADS manages to capture the sometimes-hysterical jollity of the 1960s and hints at why a conservative governor once described the city of Madison as "25 square miles surrounded by reality." Aside from that, the only thing I can add to the preceding reviews is that when RADS was published in 1992, the present-day remnants of Madison's radical community greeted it with outrage. The crux of their criticism seemed to be that Bates portrays Karl Armstrong's motivation as being more personal than political; that he was seduced by the romantic aura of radical activism and lashed out because of deep-seated rage against his father, who had physically abused Karl when he was a boy. Karl Armstrong himself was quoted in a Madison newspaper as calling RADS "bullsh--."I think there's some validity to the radical criticism, based on the way Bates withholds the fact of the abuse until page 429 of a 446-page book. Revealing it at the end is a trick out of Jerry... read more
RADS: A Powerful True Story of the "End of the Sixties"
By Andrew - March 30, 2000Tom Bates presents the bombing of the AMRC within an intriguing, captivating story. As a high school senior, I have not lived through the war and the anti-war movement. Nonetheless, RADS provided me with enough background information to understand the book (based around the bombing) on both the specific level and the larger scheme of things.Bates introduces the 'romantic' appeal of political radicalism in the late 60s and early 70s logically and insightfully. In addition, throughout the book, the reader gets to know the bombers and the people with whom they interact.The book does not include any extraneous chapters. Bates has a reason for every section of the book that he includes. Because of this, the book is never slow to read; much of the book is very suspenseful, set up by the well-chosen quotes that begin every chapter.This book is a must-read for anyone who is interested in radicalism, historic bombings, or the anti-war movement of the 60s and 70s.
Good account of the mood of the Madison campus in 1970
By A Customer - March 24, 1999The book does a good job describing both the "New Years Gang"'s origins and motivations and the overall mood at UW-Madison in the late 1960's. The UW-Madison campus had at least its share of "activists" in those days. Unfortunately, it also had some misguided townies who were willing to take concrete steps in response to the activists' rhetoric.The engineering campus tended to be on the sidelines of the activism, and Bate's book fills in some of the blanks from those days. It also provided some of the answers to the questions I had about the incident. The bombing occurred the summer after I graduated from there and two weeks after I was drafted into the Army. The Armstrong trial took place while I was attending grad school at UW after discharge.There's a number of lessons from this account that would-be bomb makers of any stripe would do well to ponder before going out and blowing up buildings in the name of idealism.
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