A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground

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 agitators, Thai Jones grew up an heir to an American tradition of resistance. Yet rather than partake of it, he took it upon himself to document it. The result is a book of extraordinary reporting a...