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Angry Planet

When Political Violence Exploded in America

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3882 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

From 1971 to 1972, the FBI reported more than 2,500 bombings in America. That’s five explosions a day, and most were tied to radical underground political movements. Political violence is on the rise in the US but many of its perpetrators are disorganized loners, attached to fringe movements that foment online but rarely follow through. In the 1970s and into the 1980s, dozens of violent political groups agitated for change and attempted the violent overthrow of the government.


Today’s political violence is scary and terrible, but it’s a far cry from the explosive 1970s. Here to help us understand it is Bryan Burrough, author of Barbarians at the Gate, Public Enemies and Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence.


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Two bombs went off inside large packed theaters in the Bronx.

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The bombs went off in the front of the theater.

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People scurried out and then nearly caused a riot

0:28.8

when the police wouldn't turn the movies back on.

0:31.2

You know, it was just bombs were seen as a part of life especially in

0:35.1

urban America.

0:50.0

You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines. Here are your hosts, Matthew Galt and October marked an uptick in

1:11.2

white nationalist violence in America.

1:13.6

Proud Boys assaulted people in New York City, a man killed two people in a grocery store in Kentucky

1:18.1

while telling a bystander that whites don't shoot whites.

1:21.3

A man mailed pipe bombs to prominent Democrats, journalists, and George Soros,

1:25.6

a shooter murdered 14 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue.

1:29.6

Sometimes it feels as if America is entering a new era of political violence. Here to help us figure out if that's true is Brian Burrow, author of Barbarian at the Gates, public enemies, the big rich, and days of rage America's radical underground, the FBI, and the forgotten rich and

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the FBI and the forgotten age of revolutionary violence.

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Brian, thank you so much for joining us.

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My pleasure.

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I will first of all, for the people that't read it, and everybody should read this book.

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