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An American Radical Paperback – March 1, 2011

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On a November night in 1984, Susan Rosenberg sat in the passenger seat of a U-Haul as it swerved along the New Jersey Turnpike. At the wheel was a fellow political activist. In the back were 740 pounds of dynamite and assorted guns. That night I still believed with all my heart that what Che Guevara had said about revolutionaries being motivated by love was true. I also believed that our government ruled the world by force and that it was necessary to oppose it with force. Raised on New York City's Upper West Side, Rosenberg had been politically active since high school, involved in the black liberation movement and protesting repressive U.S. policies around the world and here at home. At twenty-nine, she was on the FBI's Most Wanted list. While unloading the U-Haul at a storage facility, Rosenberg was arrested and sentenced to an unprecedented 58 years for possession of weapons and explosives. I could not see the long distance I had traveled from my commitment to justice and equality to stockpiling guns and dynamite. Seeing that would take years. Rosenberg served sixteen years in some of the worst maximum-security prisons in the United States before being pardoned by President Clinton as he left office in 2001. Now, in a story that is both a powerful memoir and a profound indictment of the U.S. prison system, Rosenberg recounts her journey from the impassioned idealism of the 1960s to life as a political prisoner in her own country, subjected to dehumanizing treatment, yet touched by moments of grace and solidarity. Candid and eloquent, An American Radical reveals the woman behind the controversy--and reflects America's turbulent coming-of-age over the past half century.
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  1. Print length
    400 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Kensington Publishing Corporation
  4. Publication date
    March 1, 2011
  5. Dimensions
    5.4 x 1.2 x 8 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0806533048
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0806533049
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  • RedBeard
    5.0 out of 5 stars Professors, add to your syllabus.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2011
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    Rosenberg, at thousands of junctures in her captivity, throws her spirit against the gears of the prison industrial complex. A must read to cultivate American awareness of what is happening to itself.

    This is not left or right, this is you and me. Currently, over 7.2 million people are in prison, on probation, or on parole. This means roughly 1 in every 32 Americans are held by the justice system. The mechanism is exposed as incongruous to it's stated purpose:

    "The Federal Bureau of Prisons protects society by confining offenders in the controlled environments of prisons and community-based facilities that are safe, humane, cost-efficient, and appropriately secure, and that provide work and other self-improvement opportunities to assist offenders in becoming law-abiding citizens."

    It is clear that the statement would more truthfully read:

    "The Federal Bureau of Prisons corrupts society by restricting citizens (and some real criminals) to diminutive holding compartments that depreciate health, brutalize people, cost untold billions, eviscerate basic freedoms, and provide menial labor and other psychological diversions to ensure nominal occasions for self-improvement, with the result of an increased recidivism rate that assists in maintenance and development of more jobs for the BOP and justice system while suppressing reproach by elected officials and American citizens."

    This book is a critical asset to the correction of our "corrections" system.
    This is a study in humanity, introspection, and perseverance, against which the machine was prevented from working.

    A story of survival. It is indelible.
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  • Adam Aronson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellently crafted memoir and critique
    Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2011
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    An American Radical stands out for me for several reason. Previously, I was not familiar with the current state of prisons, or of the degrees to which security is enforced. Coming from Louisiana with stories of Angola, then moving past so many institutions here in New York (Rikers, Sing Sing, Brooklyn and Manhattan Central Detentions to name a few) it's much clearer how much farther the justice system stretches. It's tragic to hear of California's overcrowding, and how little the system does to ameliorate the situation. The effort toward stopping recidivism should be so much greater.

    There's clearly a wholly different story at heart of the politics involved with Ms. Rosenberg's actions. Having grown up after that time it was a good primer on some of the ideologies, and it leaves much to be learned.
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  • D. Reel
    5.0 out of 5 stars Despite the hard subject matter this book is a real page-turner, very well written and full of heart.
    Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2017
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    One of the best written books I have ever read, period. Susan Rosenberg condensed 10 years of diaries into the most human, readable memoirs ever written. Her heart and chops as a writer make this book perfect for undergraduate classes, reading groups, church/faith-based groups and more.
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  • DrSEWil
    5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
    Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2013
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    This will open your eyes and help you identify with reality - things are not always what they appear to be - perseverance through faith, and faith through hope, and hope through determination, no matter what is going on - well this book is truly about freedom and the lessons one can learn through the valleys of life.
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  • B. M. Codianni
    5.0 out of 5 stars A rare view into the life of a political prisoner ...
    Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2015
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    A rare view into the life of a political prisoner in America. The book also gives insight to mass incarceration in the U.S. and of the way the government (still) uses solitary confinement as torture.
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  • sandy shevack
    5.0 out of 5 stars An American Radical
    Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2013
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    Susan Rosenberg is an insightful, dedicated human rights activist. Since her release from prison, she has continued to work for peace, justice and sustainable development.
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  • Murrell R. Morgan
    4.0 out of 5 stars Authentic ,Powerful, Memoir
    Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2011
    "An American Radical" by Susan Rosenberg is a page-turner. It is also a well written memoir that demonstrated to me that she is a hero in her determination (all 5'6" 100 lbs of her), to stand up to brutal and illegal acts perpitrated against her by prision guards. How many of us would exhibit similar courage in such extreme circumstances?
    She is clear -eyed, smart, unsentimental and empathic human being. She sometimes functioned while in prision as an impromptu social worker of sorts to help her fellow women prisoners-in particular those who were hiv aids win back some of their human dignity at a time-the mid 1980's when these afflictions were stigmatized greatly as well as work at winning back some of their dignity that our prision system seeks to strip away while in most cases ending up by breaking the incarcerated's human spirit.
    However, I understand that the life of today's prision guard, or police officer as well must be a nightmare at work of dealing with unpredictably violent people,threats of violence and a "mind game" for who controlls the prision-the guards or the prisoners. The danger faced daily by the most well intentioned and humane guards has got to be overwhelming. Many prisoners have "nothing to lose "if they commit an act of violence-send them to jail? they are already in jail. For the guards, getting home safe each night is a huge uncertainty.
    The triumph of the political right , for the most part, since 1980 in the USA has sadly meant rehabilitation of deserving inmates is anathema in our culture and advocation for prision reform by politicians political suicide with rare exceptions.
    I am also unsure whether or not while in prision Ms. Rosenberg committed acts (to survive) that are unheroic and that she is not proud of. I would think it'd be impossible not to in such a hellish hoffirric place. Yet I did not see any mentioned in this book. I was not there obviously so I remain unsure.
    On balance I agree with Preseident Bill Clinton's pardon of Miss Rosenberg in 2001 and reccommend this book as a powerful and authentic memoir. Richard Morgan Brookhaven NY USA
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  • ronald
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2016
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    a very good book.
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