Book Review, David Gilbert – Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground and Beyond

I had not read anything written about or by Gilbert, nor had I listened or read an interview he had given the past. I expected a typical self-aggrandizing narrative in which the passive reader encounters the �greatness� of the man David Gilbert and his �legendary� role in piecing together pipes and wires, sneaking here, passing that guard and boom! Good ole� boys at the usual, historically Western, good ole� boys stuff�But no! This is not Gilbert�s narrative. This narrative reveals an author who is still profoundly commitment to revolutionary change – and who is not, frankly, an obnoxiously white man in the business of glorifying his or the white support network�s past activities on behalf of people of color.