My Life with SDS and The Weathermen by Mark William Rudd

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Mark William Rudd has written Underground: My Life with SDS and The Weathermen. Mark Rudd is a political organiser, mathematics instructor, anti-war activist and counterculture icon. He is most well known for his involvement with the Weather Underground. Rudd became a member of the Columbia University chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), in nineteen sixty-three. By nineteen sixty-eight, he became a leader for Columbia’s SDS chapter. Rudd’s works’ include Truth and Consequences: The Education of Mark Rudd and Underground: My Life with SDS and The Weathermen.

Underground: My Life with SDS and The Weathermen was based upon a man named Mark Rudd. In nineteen sixty-eight, Mark Rudd led the historic act of revolt against the Columbia University’s support for the Vietnam War, and its governmental racism. Mark Rudd was the alluring chairman of the SDS, Students for a Democratic Society. It was the most substantial student organisation in the United States. After a brutal police intrusion, the Columbia occupation revolved into a student rebellion that shut down the entire campus, turning Mark Rudd into a national indication of student rebellion. Mark Rudd later on became the cofounder of the Weatherman clique of Students for a Democratic Society, which managed the student organisation, and cooperated to construct the prominent years of animosity in Chicago. This wasn’t enough for Rudd though. He wanted revolution. Mark Rudd and his friends yearned to end war, injustice, racism, and by any means mandatory, even cruelty. After the unfortunate turn, leading to the death of three members who were killed after an accidental explosion, they reconstructed themselves into the Weather Underground Organisation. By the end of ninete...

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...at it would be best to release Rudd on his own recognisance.

In all honesty, I strongly enjoyed reading the autobiography. The impact of Mark Rudd’s actions, during the revolutionary protest against the Vietnamese War, was remarkable and inspirational. Just the fact of knowing that the text I was reading, was carefully thought through and written by Mark Rudd himself, was enticing and mind blowing. Every detail about the autobiography was thoughtful and put into specific groupings of ideas. The autobiography consisted of everything that happened from the beginning to the end, leaving no signs of unspecified details. I personally loved this autobiography relentlessly, and recommend it towards anyone interested in historic events of rebellion and freedom.

Works Cited

Rudd, M. Underground: My Life with SDS and The Weathermen. New York: William Morrow, 2009. Print.

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