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The political memoir

as rousing adventure story—a sizzling account of a life lived in

the thick of every important struggle of the era.

April 1973: 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

success?0?2fully parachutes 1,500 pounds of food into the village.

The drop breaks the FBI siege, and assures an Indian victory.

This was not the first—or last—time Bill Zimmerman put his life at

risk for the greater social good. In this extraordi?0?2nary 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 1967 march on

the Pentagon; fighting the police at the 1968 Democratic

con?0?2vention; mobilizing scientists against the Vietnam War and

the military’s misuse of their discoveries; smuggling medi?0?2cines

to the front lines in North Vietnam; spending time in Hanoi under

U.S. bombardment; and founding an interna?0?2tional charity,

Medical Aid for Indochina, to deliver humanitarian assistance.

Zimmerman—who crossed paths with political organizers and activists

like Abbie Hoffman, Daniel Ellsberg, César Chávez, Jane Fonda, and

Tom Hayden—captures a groundbreaking zeitgeist that irrevoca?0?2bly

changed the world as we knew it.

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BILL ZIMMERMAN, who holds a doctorate in

psy?chology from the University of Chicago, is one of the nation’s

most experienced political consul?tants. As cofounder of the

leading consulting firm Zimmerman & Markman, whose work for

ballot initiatives and for organizations such as the ACLU, NRDC,

and MoveOn.org has won multiple awards, he continues to advocate

for social justice. He lives in Topanga, California.

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Praise for

Troublemaker:

"For almost half a century Bill Zimmerman has labored

with intensity for progressive causes as an organizer and political

consultant.

In this new memoir he looks back on his career with

an unwavering commitment to his beliefs and an admirable

intellectual toughness and pragmatism

.... He has been a key

player on dozens of issues including Wounded Knee, Central America,

Harold Washington’s mayoral campaign and medical marijuana

initiatives and fought with MoveOn.org against the Iraq War.

His

tense and harrowing account of literally risking his life by flying

an airplane to drop food to the besieged American Indian Movement

at Wounded Knee gives the book a drama not found in typical

ideological memoirs

...

[His] is a unique and strong

voice

.

Troublemaker

is

a well-written, passionate

story of a personal journey through the Vietnam protest era, and a

valuable model for progressive activists of our own

time

."

—

Danny Goldberg,

TheNation.com

"A political activist looks back on an eventful life.

Zimmerman (

Is Marijuana the Right Medicine for You?

,

1999, etc.), a working-class kid from Chicago who lost relatives in

the Holocaust, struggled from an early age with revulsion over the

idea that he might become the American equivalent of “the Good

German,” a citizen who passively condones the evil actions of his

government. His rebellious nature was nurtured in 1960 during a

year-long hiatus from studies at the University of Chicago by the

sight of French students skirmishing with police on the streets of

Paris in protest against the war in Algeria, something unheard of

in Eisenhower America. Back in America, he joined a friend working

for the Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee in Mississippi

one summer, during which he witnessed firsthand the sickening

effects of Jim Crow racism. Politically ahead of the curve with his

peers, he led student negotiations with the university during an

occupation of Chicago’s administration building as a graduate

student, then as an assistant professor of psychology at Brooklyn

College. Soon, he was making a career fighting to end the Vietnam

War, whether it involved confronting police or his fellow

scientists and academics, shaming them for sharing research that

could be used against civilians in the war. Zimmerman reveals here

one extraordinary example of his activism: At a critical moment, he

traveled to Europe to give North Vietnamese officials some stolen

vials of newly developed penicillin that required no refrigeration,

an act which, if he had been caught, might have earned him the

charge of espionage or treason. The author’s experiences during the

war (e.g., recording on film the damage American bombs did to

cities and hospitals in North Vietnam) and after (flying a

dangerously damaged cargo plane to drop food and medicine for

besieged Indians at Wounded Knee) demonstrate that effective

political activism requires no less physical courage than that of

soldiers and federal agents. Perhaps overpacked with detail at

times, Zimmerman’s memoir is, nevertheless, both a

thoughtful

eyewitness history of America’s war at home and a thrilling

political adventure story

.

An engaging exhortation to take risks and live a meaningful

life

."

—

Kirkus Reviews

“A riveting book.  Bill Zimmerman is a shining example of Tom

Paine’s ‘winter soldier,’ a patriot his country can count on in

dark times to help it end a disastrous policy or realize its

highest ideals.  The war in Viet Nam, catastrophe that it was,

brought out the best in many Americans, he among them.  This

is an inspiring story of a life committed to a better world. 

And, what a life!  What a story!”

—Daniel Ellsberg

“Bill Zimmerman gives the lie to the old saw that if you remember

the ’60s you weren't there.  He was there and he

remembers.  He spent the ’60s making trouble from Mississippi

to South Dakota to North Vietnam.  You don't have to agree

with his politics to agree he has written one hell of a

page-turner.”

—Paul Begala, CNN Political Consultant

“Bill Zimmerman’s memoir is a great adventure story since he

managed to be engaged in many of the dramatic scenes of civil

rights and antiwar struggle in the sixties.  We travel with

him from Mississippi to Hanoi, from the steps of the Pentagon to

Wounded Knee and many points in between, experiencing close-up how

the events of the time compelled a brilliant young scientist to

radical resistance.  Zimmerman’s tales of derring-do are fused

with insightful analysis, and a history we thought we knew is

retold in surprising and moving ways.”

—Richard Flacks, Professor of Sociology, University of

California, Santa Barbara and Co-founder of Students for a

Democratic Society

“Bill Zimmerman’s tale is remarkable.  I know him as a close

colleague who helped create today’s internet-aided progressive

resurgence, but he has a spellbinding story to tell of his

political adventures in the 1960s and 1970s.  Activists today

will want to read this inspiring story.”

—Wes Boyd, Co-founder of MoveOn.org

“Bill Zimmerman’s wise and rollicking chronicle of his contrarian

transit across the sixties and early seventies (a sort of cross

between Zelig, Zorro, and Zapata) can help explain the political

and cultural passions of that era, both to those who lived through

them and to their progeny, better than any such text has yet

managed to do.  It’s a vivid tale, elegantly

dispatched.”

—Lawrence Weschler, Director, New York Institute for the

Humanities at NYU

“

Troublemaker

lives up to its title in every way.  A

smart, tough, incisive look at the politics of the ’60s and how

they impact us today.  A look at the past that gives us a lens

on the present.  Read it.  Then go out and cause

trouble.”

—

Robert Greenwald, Producer and Director, Brave New

Films