The Washington Free Beacon has a cracker of a book review, in which Ronald Radosh reads the searching memoir of Zayd Ayers Dohrn. You’ll remember that paired last name: Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn were prominent members of the Weather Underground. Both spent years as fugitives. Federal bombing and conspiracy charges against Ayers and other Weathermen were ultimately dropped because of prosecutorial misconduct and illegal FBI surveillance. Ayers served no prison time. Dohrn was once on the FBI’s most-wanted list. Later, she received probation on state charges related to the “Days of Rage” riots in Chicago in 1969, and she served about seven months in jail for contempt for refusing to testify before a grand jury about a Brink’s armored-car robbery........

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