Son of radicals, Zayd Ayers Dohrn grew up underground & on the run
Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s memoir, Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young, recounts his upbringing as the child of Weather Underground leaders Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, exploring the emotional and moral contradictions of revolutionary parenthood and the legacy of radical resistance in Amer
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