Troublemaker A Memoir from the Front Lines of the Sixties

Name: Troublemaker A Memoir from the Front Lines of the Sixties
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ISBN: 9780307739506

ISBN-10: 0307739503

ISBN-13: 9780307739506

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Authors: Bill Zimmerman

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The political memoir as rousing adventure story—a sizzling account of a life lived in the thick of every important struggle of the era.April 1973: snow falls thick and fast on the Badlands of South Dakota. It has been more than five weeks since protesting Sioux Indians seized their historic village of Wounded Knee, and the FBI shows no signs of abandoning its siege. When Bill Zimmerman is asked to coordinate an airlift of desperately needed food and medical supplies, he cannot refuse; flying through gunfire and a mechanical malfunction, he carries out a daring dawn raid and successfully parachutes 1,500 pounds of food into the village. The drop breaks the FBI siege, and assures an Indian…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/5/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.22" wide x 8.00" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

<p Bill Zimmerman has had a successful career as a journalist, prize-winning newspaper editor, and prolific book writer. Nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes, Bill is a former journalist for Newsday and is the author of Doodles & Daydreams: Your Passport for Becoming an Escape Artist (Gibbs Smith, 2007) and Lunch Box Letters. He lives in New York City. </p