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Granny Made Me an Anarchist | 
 enlarge | Author: Stuart Christie
Publisher: Scribner
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 94769
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0743263561
Dewey Decimal Number: 941
EAN: 9780743263566
ASIN: 0743263561
Publication Date: August 1, 2005
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walks the walk July 21, 2007
reader (devon,uk)
Stuart Christie, more well known for his 'involvement' with the Angry Brigade anarcho/revolutionary movement than his attempt to assinate the reactionary Spanish dictator Franco, is a leftie who walks the walk rather than just talking the talk. Paints a fantastic picture of a working class upbringing in post war Glasgow and his recollections of a lenghty prison stretch in a Madrid jail with other political prisoners of the anti Franco resistance are written with verve, wit and not too much of playing the blame game. Meu culpa. Later life in London, during the time a lot of us on the left thought a workers takeover of the UK economy was on the cards, is a joy to read as is his account of the numerous attempts by the old bill to stitch him up are no surprise to anyone who lived through those hectic times. Great read for everybody, even your Granny.
absolutely fascinating and brilliant December 20, 2005
Crisdean (Edinburgh, Scotland)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I picked this book up at book shop here in Edinburgh. I'd never heard of it - and was amused by a young Scottish Anarchist trying to blow Franco up. I've not been able to put it down since getting it - it is absolutely fascinating. Not only is the personal story rivetting - but it also has reminded me of past struggles to try and makes social change to make a better society. It also made me realise that the things we were protesting again are still there and the struggle for right and equality are still valid. Society here in Britian and the World has changed so much; in the past there were struggle for justice - but now we are so seduced into the aquiring of property and that if you are not you feel like some dinosaur from the past. This book has reminded me what it is all about and that that niggling feeling that you don't fit in and buy into the consumerist ideology isn't that you have a problem but that the problem is the make up of society. It is also relevent when we are seeing protests against world poverty and the other protest against what is going on - in reminding us that we each can make a differnence - when se so often feel that our voices are lost. If for nothing else I have to thank Stuart Christie for reminding me of this. I'd recommend this book to anyone to read. Even if you do not happen to agree with the politics - I am sure that reading his account of incarciartion in a Franco gaol - where invertantly this ended up putting him into contact with some of Spain's greatest academics - will find it fascinating
An absolute cracker October 6, 2005
Matteus (London)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is 'real-life boys-own anarchist meets the establishment' adventure! And meeting the Spanish establishment (in a hare-brained plot to kill the Spanish dictator Franco in the 1960s) was where Christie bites off a wee bit more than he can chew. If that's not enough reason to buy the book, you get a richly-evoked Glasgow childhood and more shenanigans in London in the 1970s with bomb plots, squatters and of course the Old Bill.
Great Read May 16, 2005
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
This book is hugely entertaining, hilarious at times whilst unbelievable at others with just enough anarchist philosophy as the backdrop to the story of an incredible life.
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