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“We got to a point of thinking that there is nothing left to do but tear everything down. ” – JONATHAN LERNER interviewed in the New Haven Independent

Monday, May 21st, 2018

Jonathan Lerner was lucky. He didn’t end up killing anybody.

But as a member of the Weather Underground in the 1960s, he did help people who killed people — and carried out narcissistic violence in the notion that they were making a better world.

Fifty years later, he has revisited how he got caught up in that mess. He sought to understand how that happens to people. And what lessons he can offer for young people today who are similarly convinced they need to take dramatic action at a time when America’s political system seems hopelessly broken..

Read the full interview here.

JONATHAN LERNER discusses the Weather Underground at the New Haven Independent

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018

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Shelf Awareness reviews SWORDS IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN, saying its “story of emotional and moral development in this environment is intimate.”

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018

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SWORDS IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN is featured in Antioch College Alumni News

Friday, December 15th, 2017

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JONATHAN LERNER appears on BBC Free Thinking, discussing SWORDS IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN

Monday, December 11th, 2017

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Out in Print calls SWORDS IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN “compelling reading.”

Monday, November 13th, 2017

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David Wilk interviews JONATHAN LERNER on Writerscast

Monday, October 30th, 2017

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“Motivation and practice in the Weather Underground and Jane (a secret abortion network).” JONATHAN LERNER in Public Seminar

Monday, October 30th, 2017

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“To those of us deeply immersed in the New Left in the summer of 1969, apocalypse felt imminent.” An excerpt from SWORDS IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN at Waging Nonviolence

Thursday, October 26th, 2017

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JONATHAN LERNER appears on Rag Radio, discussing SWORDS IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN

Friday, September 29th, 2017

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“What I Saw on the Way to the Revolution.” JONATHAN LERNER in the New York Times

Tuesday, September 12th, 2017

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“A must read for anyone — young or old — inclined to see the Weatherman as right on, or badass, or as pioneers of a form of political struggle useful for the United States’s future.” SWORDS IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN is reviewed at Los Angeles Review of Books

Tuesday, September 5th, 2017

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“This is the era of ’68, all that hope, liberation and revolt, and when all of that came to nothing, the self-destruction that came next.” SWORDS IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN is a selection on Mark Perryman’s summer reading list

Thursday, August 24th, 2017

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“This is the era of ’68, all that hope, liberation and revolt and when all of that came to nothing, the self-destruction that came next.” SWORDS IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN is featured on a summer reading list from Philosophy Football

Thursday, August 10th, 2017

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“Amazing tales of the 1960s ‘revolution.’” SWORDS IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN is reviewed in American Jewish World

Tuesday, August 1st, 2017

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“I’m aware of what drove us to do what we did.” JONATHAN LERNER is interviewed in Chronogram

Tuesday, August 1st, 2017

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“A harrowing story, at times even difficult to read, but full of interest, romance, and accounts of many noble actions.” SWORDS IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN is reviewed at Peace News

Tuesday, July 25th, 2017

Anyone who has been part of an activist group will find resonances in this perceptive account of the vulnerability of a group to the effects of poverty and secrecy, which prevented members from thinking clearly.

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“Lerner is an adept storyteller who writes with passion and clarity and with a keen sense that the past is alive in the present.” SWORDS IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN is reviewed at Huffington Post

Monday, July 3rd, 2017

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“If the Weather Underground was romanticised by progressives at the time who nonetheless abhorred its violent ways, a reading of Lerner’s book leaves no doubt that it shouldn’t have been.” SWORDS IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN is cited at The Independent

Monday, June 26th, 2017

Read David Usborne’s article, on domestic terrorism in America, here.

“A rueful—but not entirely so—account of years spent in the Students for Democratic Society and its militant offspring, the Weather Underground.” SWORDS IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN is reviewed at Kirkus

Wednesday, June 14th, 2017

Readers with a memory for the time will appreciate some of Lerner’s dish, which involves other now-well-known radicals. Those too young for it will find inspiration in his latter-day commitment to tiny acts in the face of Armageddon.

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JONATHAN LERNER speaks to Tom DePietro on WGXC public radio

Thursday, June 1st, 2017

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“I want to give people a sense that this has happened before, there are lessons to be drawn, and there are dimensions of the ‘60s that they don’t know about.” JONATHAN LERNER on SWORDS IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN at Rural Intelligence

Thursday, June 1st, 2017

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