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Advance Praise For Arthur Eckstein's New Book

October 24, 2016 College of Arts and Humanities | History

Advance Praise For Arthur Eckstein's New Book

The Arts Fuse reviews “Bad Moon Rising.”

Harvey Blume | The Arts Fuse

Arthur Eckstein, who was named a distinguished university professor of history in September 2016, is a specialist in the history of the Hellenistic world and Roman imperialism under the Republic. Forthcoming from Yale University Press in October 2016, his most recent book, “Bad Moon Rising: How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution,” is a study of the most famous violent left-wing American group of the 1960s and early 1970s, the Weather Underground, and the FBI’s response to it. The book draws from interviews with Weather veterans as well as 30,000 pages of previously unreleased FBI documents.

In an advanced review published in The Arts Fuse, Boston’s online arts magazine on October 24, 2015, noted author and Sixties activist Harvey Blume praises the book for opening up new insights into the actions of the period’s Radicals through a disciplined examination of the FBI’s voluminous files. Scores of books have been written on these themes, but Blume concludes that “'Bad Moon Rising' turns out to be justified by new evidence, some of which will be surprising to all concerned, while others definitively put old arguments to rest.”

Read the complete article at The Arts Fuse.