Jenny Thompson, PhD, Historian & Author

"Obama will soon have to make an unpopular and controversial decision about America’s involvement in Afghanistan. The president has two choices: One is to drastically increase the number of troops in Afghanistan by 40,000 to 60,000. Another is to do nothing or order a purely symbolic increase."

Thus spake the Washington Post on October 28, 2009.

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Mark Rudd's memoir of his days with the Weathermen Underground, _Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen_ (2009),offers one of the most fascinating and trenchant studies of a grass roots anti-war operation, initially sprung to life with the student protest movement in the 1960s.

Rudd's book is not what one might expect from  Read More