AYERS, Bill, & Bernadine Dohrn.

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Prairie Fire. The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism. Early printing (same year as first), signed by Bernadine Dohrn and inscribed by Bill Ayers on the title page "With hope for a world at peace and in balance, Bill Ayers", and scarce thus. Dohrn and Ayers were co-leaders of the radical group Weather Underground, which sought to establish communism and fight imperialism in the United States through any means necessary, including violent revolution.Originally called the Weathermen, after Bob Dylan's lyrics "you don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows", the Weather Underground began in 1969 as an offshoot from the Students for a Democratic Society. Prairie Fire is their manifesto, and the year following its publication, "the group had claimed credit for 25 bombings - including the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, the California Attorney General's office, and a New York City police station" (FBI). The FBI vastly overestimated the size of the group, and dedicated a large amount of resources to capturing its leaders; Dohrn was among the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives throughout the early 1970s. Ayers and Dohrn explain in their introduction to Prairie Fire, which is named after the Chairman Mao letter "A Single Spark can Start a Prairie Fire", that their manifesto "is based on a belief that the duty of a revolutionary is to make the revolution. This is not an abstraction... It means that the struggle and risk and hard work and adversity will become a way of lif

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