Fire and Rain by David Browne - review

A study of 1970, filtered through the music of the timeWe live in turbulent times, our distrust of institutions seemingly at a peak. Yet between January 1969 and the spring of 1970, according to the author of Fire and Rain, borrowing figures quoted by CBS News, radical groups set off an estimated 4,330 bombs across the United States, with the state of California contributing 20 a week. In New York, David Browne writes, "between August and October 1969, explosive devices had gone off in three bu...

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