A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience Book

Oooh, another book i really liked! thai jones is the child of eleanor stein & jeff jones, two members of the weather underground. less a memoir than his own family history, he goes all the way back to the early 1900s when his grandmother was born & charts his family's history of political involvement, culminating in 1981 when the FBI busted into his house when he was four years old & arrested his parents. i have a weird fascination with family histories in general, maybe because i really don't know a whole hell of a lot about my own family. & i am especially intrigued by political family histories, because they chart the political developments of an entire country--or a world, in some cases--over a specific period of time & show in the longer view how people are actors within their own lifetimes if they remain cognizant of & engaged in the political context of their lives. everything from labor activism to communist blacklisting to the civil rights movement to anti-war stuff to the spanish civil war--pretty much the radical history of the twentieth century is captured here (some events/causes looming a bit larger than others). i should read this again. it was great. & yeah, obviously it touches on weather underground stuff, because his parents were in it & conceived him & gave birth to him while living as fugitives, but the book serves more to contextualize their political consciences & portray their actions within a greater framework of political awareness than it serves as, like, salacious weather underground intrigue or whatever.