Love and Struggle: My Life in Sds, the Weather Underground, and Beyond

Written from the maximum-security prison where he has lived for almost 30 years, this enlightening memoir chronicles the militant career of David Gilbert, a radical activist whose incarceration is due to his involvement in the 1981 Brinks robbery, an attempted expropriation that resulted in four deaths. From his entry into the world of political activism as the founder of Students for a Democratic Society at Columbia University to his departure from public life in order to help build the clandestine resistance to war and racism known as the Weathermen, Gilbert relates all of the victories he has achieved and obstacles he has encountered during his struggle to build a new world. In telling the intensely personal story he is stripped of all illusions and assesses his journey from liberal to radical to revolutionary with rare humor and frankness. A firsthand glimpse into the terrors and triumphs of the 1960s and beyond, "Love and Struggle "is as candid and uncompromising as its author.

David Gilbertappeared in the Academy Awardnominated film "The Weather Underground "and is the author of "No Surrender."He is incarcerated in the Clinton Correctionalin Dannemora, New York. Boots Riley is the former leader of the Coup, a music group declared the best hip-hop act of the past decade by "Billboard "magazine. He formed a new group, Street Sweeper Social Club, with Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine. He lives in Oakland, California."