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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 victory.
This was not the first—or last—time Bill Zimmerman put his life at risk for the greater social good. In this extraordinary memoir, Zimmerman takes us into the hearts and minds of those making the social revolution of the sixties. He writes about registering black voters in deepest, most racist Mississippi; marching with Martin Luther King Jr. in Chicago; helping to organize the 1967 march on the Pentagon; fighting the police at the 1968 Democratic convention; mobilizing scientists against the Vietnam War and the military’s misuse of their discoveries; smuggling medicines to the front lines in North Vietnam; spending time in Hanoi under U.S. bombardment; and founding an international charity, Medical Aid for Indochina, to deliver humanitarian assistance. Zimmerman—who crossed paths with political organizers and activists like Abbie Hoffman, Daniel Ellsberg, César Chávez, Jane Fonda, and Tom Hayden—captures a groundbreaking zeitgeist that irrevocably changed the world as we knew it.
- Sales Rank: #1784976 in Books
- Published on: 2011-04-26
- Released on: 2011-04-26
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.60" h x 1.43" w x 6.44" l, 1.74 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 464 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Vietnam-era peace activism is as adventurous as going to war in this exhilarating memoir. Zimmerman recounts the radicalization via beatnikism, the civil rights movement, and antiwar protests that led him in 1969 to renounce a promising psychology professorship (he feared his research might somehow be bent to evil purposes by the military-industrial complex) and become a full-time antiwar activist. The switch put him in harness with Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, and Jane Fonda and gave free rein to his "weakness for audacious ideas": he smuggled penicillin to the North Vietnamese, filmed bomb damage in Hanoi, and, in a hair-raising set piece, air-dropped food to American Indian Movement insurrectionists at the 1973 siege of Wounded Knee. Zimmerman's narrative is more focused on politics than is the typical counterculture memoir. It's also more about acting than thinking. Zimmerman has a knack for staging demonstrations and propaganda coups, which he transfers from the politics of confrontation to the politics of manipulation when he becomes a campaign consultant, but his antiestablishment ideology remains confused, emotional, and never very reflective—even in retrospect—about the Indochina conflict. Still, his is a vivid evocation of the romanticism and extraordinary shifts in consciousness that the 1960s unleashed. Photos. (Apr. 26)
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Praise for Troublemaker:
"For almost half a century Bill Zimmerman has labored with intensity for progressive causes as an organizer and political consultant. In this new memoir he looks back on his career with an unwavering commitment to his beliefs and an admirable intellectual toughness and pragmatism.... He has been a key player on dozens of issues including Wounded Knee, Central America, Harold Washington’s mayoral campaign and medical marijuana initiatives and fought with MoveOn.org against the Iraq War. His tense and harrowing account of literally risking his life by flying an airplane to drop food to the besieged American Indian Movement at Wounded Knee gives the book a drama not found in typical ideological memoirs... [His] is a unique and strong voice. Troublemaker is a well-written, passionate story of a personal journey through the Vietnam protest era, and a valuable model for progressive activists of our own time."—Danny Goldberg, TheNation.com
"A political activist looks back on an eventful life.
Zimmerman (Is Marijuana the Right Medicine for You?, 1999, etc.), a working-class kid from Chicago who lost relatives in the Holocaust, struggled from an early age with revulsion over the idea that he might become the American equivalent of “the Good German,” a citizen who passively condones the evil actions of his government. His rebellious nature was nurtured in 1960 during a year-long hiatus from studies at the University of Chicago by the sight of French students skirmishing with police on the streets of Paris in protest against the war in Algeria, something unheard of in Eisenhower America. Back in America, he joined a friend working for the Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee in Mississippi one summer, during which he witnessed firsthand the sickening effects of Jim Crow racism. Politically ahead of the curve with his peers, he led student negotiations with the university during an occupation of Chicago’s administration building as a graduate student, then as an assistant professor of psychology at Brooklyn College. Soon, he was making a career fighting to end the Vietnam War, whether it involved confronting police or his fellow scientists and academics, shaming them for sharing research that could be used against civilians in the war. Zimmerman reveals here one extraordinary example of his activism: At a critical moment, he traveled to Europe to give North Vietnamese officials some stolen vials of newly developed penicillin that required no refrigeration, an act which, if he had been caught, might have earned him the charge of espionage or treason. The author’s experiences during the war (e.g., recording on film the damage American bombs did to cities and hospitals in North Vietnam) and after (flying a dangerously damaged cargo plane to drop food and medicine for besieged Indians at Wounded Knee) demonstrate that effective political activism requires no less physical courage than that of soldiers and federal agents. Perhaps overpacked with detail at times, Zimmerman’s memoir is, nevertheless, both a thoughtful eyewitness history of America’s war at home and a thrilling political adventure story.
An engaging exhortation to take risks and live a meaningful life."—Kirkus Reviews
“A riveting book. Bill Zimmerman is a shining example of Tom Paine’s ‘winter soldier,’ a patriot his country can count on in dark times to help it end a disastrous policy or realize its highest ideals. The war in Viet Nam, catastrophe that it was, brought out the best in many Americans, he among them. This is an inspiring story of a life committed to a better world. And, what a life! What a story!”
—Daniel Ellsberg
“Bill Zimmerman gives the lie to the old saw that if you remember the ’60s you weren't there. He was there and he remembers. He spent the ’60s making trouble from Mississippi to South Dakota to North Vietnam. You don't have to agree with his politics to agree he has written one hell of a page-turner.”
—Paul Begala, CNN Political Consultant
“Bill Zimmerman’s memoir is a great adventure story since he managed to be engaged in many of the dramatic scenes of civil rights and antiwar struggle in the sixties. We travel with him from Mississippi to Hanoi, from the steps of the Pentagon to Wounded Knee and many points in between, experiencing close-up how the events of the time compelled a brilliant young scientist to radical resistance. Zimmerman’s tales of derring-do are fused with insightful analysis, and a history we thought we knew is retold in surprising and moving ways.”
—Richard Flacks, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara and Co-founder of Students for a Democratic Society
“Bill Zimmerman’s tale is remarkable. I know him as a close colleague who helped create today’s internet-aided progressive resurgence, but he has a spellbinding story to tell of his political adventures in the 1960s and 1970s. Activists today will want to read this inspiring story.”
—Wes Boyd, Co-founder of MoveOn.org
“Bill Zimmerman’s wise and rollicking chronicle of his contrarian transit across the sixties and early seventies (a sort of cross between Zelig, Zorro, and Zapata) can help explain the political and cultural passions of that era, both to those who lived through them and to their progeny, better than any such text has yet managed to do. It’s a vivid tale, elegantly dispatched.”
—Lawrence Weschler, Director, New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU
“Troublemaker lives up to its title in every way. A smart, tough, incisive look at the politics of the ’60s and how they impact us today. A look at the past that gives us a lens on the present. Read it. Then go out and cause trouble.”
— Robert Greenwald, Producer and Director, Brave New Films
From the Inside Flap
Troublemaker: the political memoir as rousing adventure story--a sizzling account of a life lived in the thick of the battles that defined America's revolutionary epoch.
April 1973: snow falls thick and fast on the Badlands of South Dakota five weeks after protesting Sioux Indians seized the historic village of Wounded Knee. With the FBI laying siege, Bill Zimmerman, flying a crippled airplane, leads a three-plane formation through gunfire. His daring dawn raid defies the government and successfully parachutes 1,500 pounds of food to the Indians, breaking the siege and assuring an Indian victory.
At the dawn of the sixties, angered by the vicious treatment of blacks in the South and the savage war in Viet Nam, Zimmerman, like so many others, struggled to find the appropriate moral response to a government acting immorally. He abandoned a successful scientific career to prevent military misuse of his research, then worked his way to the vanguard of the movements of the sixties. In this extraordinary memoir, he reveals the complex strategies that drove the antiwar movement, explains its offensive and defensive tactics, and argues convincingly that the struggles of the sixties were both moral and patriotic and may yet have important lessons for us today.
Zimmerman writes vividly of registering black voters in deepest most dangerous Mississippi; marching with Martin Luther King, Jr., in Chicago; helping to organize the 1967 March on the Pentagon; fighting the police at the 1968 Democratic convention and at Washington's Mayday demonstrations in 1971; mobilizing the scientific community against the war; smuggling medicines to North Viet Nam; filming the bombing of civilians in Hanoi; founding an international charity, Medical Aid for Indochina, that rebuilt a large hospital bombed by Nixon; and helping to organize the grassroots lobbying that finally ended the war. Crossing paths with the famous political organizers of the era, Zimmerman captures the zeitgeist that irrevocably changed American society and politics as we knew them.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Fantastic stories from the Sixties
By Daniel D Ostlund
Troublemaker is one of those rare books that gives distant political events a compelling personal touch; and why wouldn't it?--its author was at the center of some of the most important movements and events of the Sixties, from the civil rights struggle to the fractious fight against the Vietnam war.
It's full of great stories--the Wounded Knee air drop is worth the price alone!
But more than just a recital of the times, it also delivers important lessons in the value of troublemaking, and in the lasting effects of building movements. The Sixties had an enormous influence on the politics of today, and not just as a foil for the right. This book makes that very clear, and refuses to accept the right-wing idea that it was all for nought.
Troublemaker operates on several different levels, personal story, narrative of the Sixties, good political analysis, and practical manifesto for the future. It will reward you in many ways.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Understanding the passions of the "Sixties"
By Eric E. Sterling
For a memoir, this is a thrilling page-turner. Zimmerman demonstrated enormous personal courage in numerous exciting adventures and confrontations in the world of sixties activism.
Even though he was an important participant, Zimmerman provides lucid analysis and accurate context for many of the major convulsions of the 1960s and 1970s -- the civil rights movement and the reaction to the change in the social conventions of race; the war in Vietnam and the movement against it; the rise of drug use and the change in sex roles; the battle within the Democratic Party in 1968 and the destruction of President Johnson's re-election bid; and the conflict between the Nixon Administration and its critics.
I am more than a decade younger than Zimmerman. I was a college freshman of six or so weeks experience when I attended the famous 1967 demonstration at the Pentagon. When Zimmerman was there, he already had his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, was teaching at Brooklyn College and was a very experienced activist, organizer and protester, and committed to his life's work for social justice. The youthful experiences I have long been proud of -- my Quaker anti-draft work in the late 1960s -- completely pale in comparison to the sophistication and longevity of Zimmerman's work.
One of the best features of this memoir is the revelation of Zimmerman's continual self-analysis and commitment to effectiveness. This is a model for all of us who think about how to accomplish social change and to achieve justice.
When one considers the activist careers of so many of Zimmerman's peers, his seriousness and intelligence shine brightly by comparison. Even if your political perspective does not align with Zimmerman's, you are likely to be richly entertained by his well-told accounts of his audacious confrontations. You can't help but admire his courage facing the defenders of segregation in Mississippi, outraged whites as Martin Luther King marched in Chicago, or university presidents (and club wielding police) as the representative of student demonstrators occupying university buildings.
Zimmerman's courage while photographing U.S. bombing raids while touring bombed hospitals in North Vietnam, for example, should dispel old unwarranted generalizations about the destructiveness or cowardice of war protestors.
Zimmerman does an excellent job describing the passions of his colleagues, and those of the various political factions he rejected or worked against.
For the past two decades, Zimmerman has been working closely with numerous key figures of the Democratic party. I want to read the next volume of his memoirs! His keen ability to gracefully write an entertaining story and to provide accurate context and analytical perspective should provide many fascinating tales about the politics of Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and numerous other important political actors from Sacramento to Washington.
No matter what your experience was in the convulsive 1960s and 1970s, this great book provides accurate and colorful detail that contrasts with depictions of the sixties that are often drawn in generalities or skewed by ideology.
If you are a student today -- in high school, college or graduate school -- and idealistic about facing the daunting challenges ahead, you should find this book to be profoundly inspiring.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent!
By Marc Cooper
Let me disclose that I've known Bill a long time but have not seen him in about five years. I read the book in one sitting this past weekend (actually in one soaking as I read it sitting in a pool). It's a great read and an excellent taste of what the Sixties were really like. After the spate of ex-Weathermen books of the last decade, I really found this refreshing. Bill had courageous and sane politics back then and he has held the line through the decades. You won't be disappointed. While I found the entire book compelling I was held breathless by his account of the air drop over Wounded Knee. It's something I had known about but forgotten. What a page turner that section is! Good work, Bill.
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