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Tom Hayden on SDS Leader, CHS Grad Mark Rudd's Autobiography
Activist asks what led Rudd from the quiet Maplewood suburbs to the violence of the Weather Underground
Mark Rudd has never made the Hall of Fame at his alma mater, Columbia High School. But there was a time in the late 1960s and early 1970s when he was better known than most of those who made the list, after his role in student demonstrations at Columbia University and later as a leader of the Students for a Democratic Society and the violent Weather Underground.
In his recently published autobiography, "Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen," Rudd chronicles his progession from social activism to his support of acts of violence against the U.S. government.
In reviewing Rudd's book, Tom Hayden, an early SDS leader who turned from street protests to more conventional forms of political activity, looks for answers as to why some of the Left's most promising student leaders moved from radicalism to fanaticism.
Read the full review: Tom Hayden on Mark Rudd
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