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Bringing Down America: An FBI Informer with the Weathermen by [Larry Grathwohl, Frank Reagan]

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Time Magazine called him "the only FBI informant known to have successfully penetrated the Weather Underground."

In 1969, Larry Grathwohl stepped out of his life and into the role of an informant for the FBI. For a year, Grathwohl ran with America's most dangerous radicals. He planned bombings, murders, and political assassinations. He saw, up close, a gang of thugs dedicated to bringing down America.

When the Weathermen went underground in 1970, Grathwohl went with them. He was directly involved in schemes to blow up a string of police stations, and even the power plant at Niagara Falls. Other Weather groups were plotting to kidnap Vice President Agnew and to assassinate police chiefs, public officials, anyone representing authority.

This book was first published in 1976, when the leaders of the Weather Underground were still in hiding. Nobody would have predicted, then, that Weather Underground terrorists such as Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and Jeff Jones would emerge from hiding, avoid consequences for their crimes, and rise to positions of authority in academia and politics.

Grathwohl's story, re-published here, is now more important than ever. He challenges four decades of propaganda orchestrated by the Weathermen themselves. He disproves claims that the Weathermen weren't really violent, didn't target people, and were not really terrorists.

He reminds us what the Weathermen were really like, and what they were really planning for America.

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Frank Reagan's long career in journalism began at the New York Daily Mirror. He rose through the ranks of reporting and editing positions with the Ottaway and Gannett newspaper chains and The Wall Street Journal before forming his own public relations agency. His numerous assignments included newspaper and magazine articles on such a wide range of topics as sports, investigative, and government reporting. He acted as editor and publisher of a monthly magazine for independent trucking companies and authored a book that covered the 25-year history of a continuing care facility. His clients were as diverse as the City of Montreal and the Rose Bowl Parade. A master writer and author, Frank found Larry's story so compelling that he immediately agreed to work him. Sadly, Frank passed away in 1993 at the age of 56. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN : B00C4JBC2U
Publication date : March 29, 2013
Language : English
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Print length : 224 pages
Lending : Enabled

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Dr. Miguel A. Faria

Larry Grathwohl, the FBI informer who infiltrated and exposed the Weathermen!

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2019

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Bringing Down America: An FBI Informer with the Weathermen is a fantastic autobiographical book, which once opened cannot be easily put down, keeping you at the edge of your seat. Larry Grathwohl, the author, was also a participant, an unsung true American hero, who risked his life infiltrating the rank and file, as well as the progressive (socialist and communist) leaders of the Destructive Generation of the1960s and early 70s — the Weathermen.

Bringing Down America is objectively and eloquently written, a cliffhanger that can not be put aside as the pages turn. There is plenty of sex, drugs, organizational meetings, and crimes — supposedly to create in America a brave new revolutionary world, the socialist utopia of revolutionary dreamers. But the revolutionists are hypocritical, deceitful, and violent. Had they been able to succeed, they would have created a nightmare world, America transformed into a subservient slave state of the communist Soviet Union. Bringing Down America should be read by all, particularly the millennials who have no idea of what democratic socialism really is, and yet, brainwashed in the institutions of higher learning, are yearning for it, while putting down capitalism, the free enterprise system that with freedom made this nation great. Democratic socialism, supposedly also the aim of the leftist radicals of the 1960s and early 70s, would destroy America.

This tome, which reads as a cliffhanger novel but is all true, then is needed today more than ever to educate those who have forgotten or never new the real goals of the Democratic left and combat the forces of evil who want to transform this American Republic into a socialist hell hole. Get this book and read it.

Miguel A. Faria, M.D. is an Associate Editor in Chief in socioeconomics, politics, medicine, and world affairs of Surgical Neurology International (SNI). He is the author of the upcoming book, America, Guns, and Freedom — A Journey Into Politics and the Public Health & Gun Control Movements (2019).

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Missed the Mark

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2019

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Hats off to the Author for the work he did to infiltrate the yahoos in the Weather Underground. What was disappointing was the lack of detail or reference to the claims in front of the book about their connections to Cuba etc. I've read elsewhere of those connections but missing them here took something away. This book made them seem like a bunch of rich kids playing war that cost some lives and they got away with it. Sad times.

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Joe Bruno Sr.

Scary thought that the people in this book are still around and kicking!

Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2013

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In the late 1960's, Larry Grathwald infiltrated the Weather Underground terrorist group. While working undercover for the FBI, Grathwald mingled with the likes of the husband-and-wife team of Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn, both of whom conspired to overturn the American government and turn American into a Communist/Socialist state.

Several Americans were killed and millions of dollars of property destroyed due to bombings by the Weather Underground that were ordered by Ayres and Dohrn.

In 1969, Ayers participated in planting a bomb at a statue dedicated to police casualties in the 1886 Haymarket affair confrontation between labor supporters and the Chicago police. The blast broke almost 100 windows and blew pieces of the statue onto the nearby Kennedy Expressway. The statue was rebuilt and unveiled on May 4, 1970, and blown up again by other Weathermen on October 6, 1970.

During one of Weather Underground's meetings, Dohrn praised the murder of actress Sharon Tate by Charles Manson's Satanic group.

Dohrn said,"First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they even shoved a fork into the pig Tate's stomach! Wild!"

At another meeting, Dohrn read a "Declaration of a State of War" against the United States government, and was placed on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list, where she remained for three years.

As for Ayers, he remains unrepentant. In 2004, Ayers was asked in an interview, "How do you feel about what you did? Would you do it again under similar circumstances?"

He replied, "I've thought about this a lot. Being almost 60, it's impossible to not have lots and lots of regrets about lots and lots of things, but the question of did we do something that was horrendous, awful? ... I don't think so. I think what we did was to respond to a situation that was unconscionable."

The scary thing is that both Dohrn and Ayers are still around, and still influential, and to some, they are considered heroes.

Ayers is a retired professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, formerly holding the titles of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar.

Dohrn is an Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law and the immediate past Director of Northwestern's Children and Family Justice Center.

"Bringing Down America: An FBI Informer with the Weathermen" is riveting and scary, and a must-read for those for those who want the truth about home-grown terrorists, who seek to take down the United States of America, and especially our core values.
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James J. Bjaloncik

Takes me back

Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2013

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This is an extraordinary book, taking me back to my college years of 1969-73. I was a freshman at a local liberal arts college when the student radicals reared their ugly heads. I personally knew 3 members of my dorm that traveled to near-by Kent State to cause trouble, resulting in the shootings there. Years later, I learned of Larry Grathwohl's undercover work, particularly through a recent interview with morning radio host Jim Quinn, and was delighted to get an updated copy of it recently. Totally amazing stuff! Sadly, Larry passed away just before I received the book, which makes it even more poignant. It illuminates where these radicals have gone and the powers they've achieved since then, which is contributes mightily to why this country is in the shape we're in. That is especially since we have a committed radical Communist like Bill Ayers pulling so many stings in the field of education.

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HR Wolfe

Excellent!

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2020

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Great book telling a tale of truth about those who still today are tearing at our seams. This is about the generation that thought the current destroyers.

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