Seven-year-old Che, raised in privilege by his New York grandmother, is kidnapped in 1972 by Dial, a young Vassar professor who has agreed to bring the boy to his parents--former student radicals who are wanted by the FBI, and while Dial finds her task much more complicated than she had imagined it would be, Che looks at the time on the run and in a seedy Australian commune, as a grand adventure and chance to bond with Dial who he has come to regard as a mother.
Examines the life of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, and discusses his achievements and the impact of his Web-based organization on the world.
Discusses extremist groups in the U.S., such as American jihadists, abortion oppositionists, white supremacists, eco-terrorists, and others, and covers issues about the rights of these groups and related court cases, and provides a timeline.
In turn-of-the-century London, an undercover, counter-revolutionary mole provokes a radical group he has penetrated into an act of violence that will bring about its own destruction.
Contains 290 alphabetically arranged entries that describe the history, activities, and beliefs of active and influential extremists and extremist groups since 1980, including the Irish Republican Army, Osama Bin Laden, and the Skinhead Movement, and includes a chronology of terrorist events from 1858 to 2004.
Biography of political radical Abbie Hoffman, examining his childhood, marriages, involvement in the civil rights and student protest movements of the 1960s, legal trials, and his death by suicide.
