The political memoir as rousing adventure storymdasha sizzling account of a life lived in the thick of every important struggle of the era April snow falls thick and fast on the Badlands of South Dakota It has been more than five weeks since protesting Sioux Indians seized their historic village of Wounded Knee and the FBI shows no signs of abandoning its siege When Bill Zimmerman is asked to coordinate an airlift of desperately needed food and medical supplies he cannot refuse flying through gunfire and a mechanical malfunction he carries out a daring dawn raid and successshyfully parachutes pounds of food into the village The drop breaks the FBI siege and assures an Indian victory This was not the firstmdashor lastmdashtime Bill Zimmerman put his life at risk for the greater social good In this extraordishynary memoir Zimmerman takes us into the hearts and minds of those making the social revolution of the sixties He writes about registering black voters in deepest most racist Mississippi marching with Martin Luther King Jr in Chicago helping to organize the march on the Pentagon fighting the police at the Democratic conshyvention mobilizing scientists against the Vietnam War and the militaryrsquos misuse of their discoveries smuggling medishycines to the front lines in North Vietnam spending time in Hanoi under US bombardment and founding an internashytional charity Medical Aid for Indochina to deliver humanitarian assistance Zimmermanmdashwho crossed paths with political organizers and activists like Abbie Hoffman Daniel Ellsberg Ceacutesar Chaacutevez Jane Fonda and Tom Haydenmdashcaptures a groundbreaking zeitgeist that irrevocashybly changed the world as we knew it.
