@HeerJeet you have more faith in academia than I do.
@StephenMarche Right, which is one reason I don't take the book seriously as political history. Wethermen weren't Jainists.
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@HeerJeet A lot of them became non-violent Buddhists. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacobs_(activist) … -
@StephenMarche Jainist part of American Pastoral more influenced by an argument Roth had with Updike than from actual history of Weathermen - Show replies
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@HeerJeet I mean, John Jacobs, on the run for bombing, giving his earnings to a temple. Roth knows the history better than you. A lot better -
@StephenMarche Historians of Weather Underground have tended to dispute Roth -- which I think is also a misreading. He's not writing history
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