The son of the FBI''s most wanted woman tells the electrifying, heart-rending story of a childhood on the run - and a half-century of revolutionary struggle in America We all grapple with a past that defines us: culture, religion, a family story. But what happens when you inherit a revolution? Zayd Ayers Dohrn was born without a birth certificate. His parents had gone underground after a decade committed to violent revolution against racial injustice and the Vietnam war; his mother co-founded a group called the Weathermen, allies of the Black Panthers, and replaced Angela Davis on the FBI''s Ten Most Wanted List. His parents assured him that his birth marked a clean break with the past, an end to radical action. But, as Dohrn discovers in this explosive memoir, this version of the family story isn''t entirely true. A masterpiece of personal and social history, Dangerous, Dirty, Violent and Young offers a page-turning account of an infamous family and their life in hiding, as well as the political battles of the ''60s and ''70s. At its heart it asks bigger questions: how a child can survive when the place they feel safest - with their family - also puts them in danger? And what does it mean to be a good revolutionary or to want to change the world?

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'A fascinating journey that illuminates, in often thought-provoking ways, the politics of violence in radical movements' Angela Y. Davies

The son of the FBI's most wanted woman tells the electrifying, heart-rending story of a childhood on the run - and a half-century of revolutionary struggle in America

We all grapple with a past that defines us: culture, religion, a family story. But what happens when you inherit a revolution?

Zayd Ayers Dohrn was born underground. His parents were fugitives after a decade fighting the US government; his mother co-founded a leftist radical group called the Weathermen, and replaced Angela Davis on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List. All his life, Dohrn's parents said his birth marked a clean break with violent revolutionary struggle but, in this explosive memoir, he discovers that story wasn't entirely true.

A masterpiece of personal and social history, Dangerous, Dirty, Violent and Young offers a page-turning account of an infamous family and their life in hiding, as well as the political battles of the '60s and '70s. At its heart it asks big questions: how can a child survive when the place they feel safest - with their family - also puts them in danger? What does it mean to be a good revolutionary, and how should young people today try to change the world?