What a book! Exhilarating, maddening, contemplative, and mournful.--Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Riveting as a thriller, this wise and searching memoir . . . tells a story about America we've never quite heard before. . . . Fearless, big-hearted, and profound. I simply couldn't put it down.--Cheryl Strayed

Conjured into the present by a genuine literary master, recollecting what he saw as a sensitive child, the oft-told tale of the Weathermen catches fire here.--Rick Perlstein

A rare and profound gift--one that breaks your heart even as it quietly fills it with hope. . . . It is everything we need right now: deeply moving and urgent.--Heather Ann Thompson

A fascinating journey that illuminates, in often thought-provoking ways, the politics of violence in radical movements.--Angela Davis

Zayd Ayers Dohrn is a master storyteller. . . . The rare memoir that reads like a fast-paced thriller and leaves you wrestling with some of the most profound political questions of our time.--Jon Favreau

It's like nothing I've ever read. . . . An astonishing story written with such an open heart.--Alex Kotlowitz

[A] remarkable new history and memoir...an unsettling portrait of the idealism of one Chicago family.--Christopher Borrelli "Chicago Tribune"

Poignant, fueled with love for justice, with faith in other people, with terrific, often heartbreaking stories. . . . A page-turner and a statement of belief in the future.--Aleksandar Hemon

I love Zayd Ayers Dohrn's new book. Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground, and want radicals, revolutionaries and renegades everywhere to dive into it and discover its treasures, from the brilliant title to the exhilarating ending and with remarkable stops in between. . . . Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground will occupy a special space in my library and in my heart.--Jonah Raskin "Counterpunch"

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Pub date: 2026-05-19

Length: 448 pages