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Rads: The 1970 Bombing of the Army Math Research Center at the University of Wisconsin and Its Aftermath Paperback – September 1, 1993

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An account of the 1970 bombing of the Army Math Research Center at the University of Wisconsin sheds light on the event while also chronicling the anti-war movement. 50,000 first printing. $60,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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Paperback: 496 pages
Publisher: Perennial; 1st edition (September 1, 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060924284
ISBN-13: 978-0060924287
Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 1.2 x 8.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
Average Customer Review: 19 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #451,622 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #22854 in United States History (Books)

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Sarah1989

Good History but incomplete due to lack of FBI records

March 7, 2017

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Extensively researched but published before FBI records were available that showed the FBI knew the physics professor was in the basement, The bombers did not know the physics prof were there. According to documents released, the FBI agents on the scene relayed the information that the bombing was likely to kill the physics prof and Hoover personally told the FBI agents on the scene not to intervene. Hoover thought it would help his war against the anti-war movement for there to be a casualty.

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Francie

Rads Is A Must-Read

November 1, 2012

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Rads is simply the best account of the turmoil on the campus of the University of Wisconsin during the Viet Nam War. It is impecably researched and recounted. I know. I was there. It was the students against the government and on college campuses across the country students ignited a flame that eventually took down a President and ended the war. The story of 3 student radicals, clueless as to the power of their homemade bomb, who suddenly became the most wanted men in America, will touch your heart and help you understand that period in our history. I have purchased this book for both of my children. "Those who do not heed history, are doomed to repeat it".

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Zeli

Street Theatre

February 21, 2013

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I was there in class in the Daily Cardinal with editor Peter Berg. I knew the bombers, they hung on the opposite side of the room in the sports bureau. I stayed away from them as they were. Impersonating Athletes I was pretending to be a reporter. I was looking for trouble but could see they were more than I could handle I ended up in the street and then in jail I am in the pages of. This truthful book which explains the foolishness of the students the brutality and meanness of the Dane county sherriffs and the mayor. All pointless folly a
And farce metasticized into tragedy by the paranoia of the authorities over a bumbling post adolescent operating under their noses. A mini tragedy that mimicked and obscured the vast tragedy that was Vietnam

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Robert K. Adair

Bombing of the Wis Physics Dept

August 30, 2013

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An excellent book but I fault it -- and other accounts -- for not emphasizing that the bombers did almost no harm to the Army Math Research offices (they lost one day's work) while killing one physicist, nearly killing a second, and injuring two others as well as demolishing two research areas and Heinz Barschall's research office. Like the bombing of the Primate Lab, the mistaken targets they simply hit the wrong targets. The considerable sympathy for the bombers would have been reduced if their mistargeting would have been emphasized more.

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Dennis Ramsey

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November 16, 2013

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From a layman's perspective, I thought RADS was an excellent telling of this important but mostly forgotten historical event of the Vietnam era, one which changed the complexion of the antiwar movement. Mr. Bates sets the stage by putting the bombing into its historical context within the antiwar movement, the university, the city of Madison and its participants (members of the New Year's Gang, victims, etc.). He gives the details of the bombing in a compelling narrative, and finally discusses its aftermath in terms of the four bombers, the victims, the antiwar movement and the university.

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patsy a rossman

Brought back many memories.

September 11, 2019

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Awesome read. Accurate research.

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Michael S.

A MUST READ

June 22, 2015

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I once walked into a bookstore in Madison on State Street and asked them, "Give me the quintessential book on the late '60's radicalism on campus" and the guys, heavily under the influence of medical marijuana, didn't know what I was talking about. Had the only known about RADS, right on their residue-stained shelves.

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Pocahontas 1

Well done!

February 7, 2015

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Great book!

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