William Powell (1) (1949–2016)
Autor von The Anarchist Cookbook
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William Ralph Powell was born in Roslyn, Long Island, New York on December 6, 1949. In late 1969, he was working at a bookstore in Greenwich Village when he decided to quit his job to research and write The Anarchist Cookbook. At the time, he was angry at the government and the Vietnam War. The mehr anzeigen Anarchist Cookbook, a diagram- and recipe-filled manifesto, is believed to have been used as a source in heinous acts of violence since its publication in 1971 including the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, the Columbine High School shootings in 1999, and the attempted assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona in 2011. He received a bachelor's degree from Windham College and a master's degree in English from Manhattanville College. His early teaching career focused on children with emotional and learning needs. He moved overseas in 1979 and worked in Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Indonesia, and Malaysia, where he taught marginalized children and trained teachers in how to better include them in the classroom. He eventually renounced the book and expressed his regret about writing it. He died of a heart attack on July 11, 2016 at the age of 66. A documentary about him, American Anarchist, was released in 2017. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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- Powell, William Ralph
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- 1949-12-06
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- 2016-07-11
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- Roslyn, New York, USA
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- Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Massat, France
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Interesting book. I gave it 3 stars because I don't know how accurate it is. Explosives and booby traps are not my forte. I actually bought it at our local bookstore just to keep it out of the hands of some of the wackos that live here. 8|
I added this book to my shelf because it pretty much compliments the slew of books I added. Seriously I wouldn't want this book in my house.
Pretty weak stuff. When I joined the military, Army Field Manuals were more interesting.
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Do not try to make anything following Powell’s instructions. Mostly you’ll get fizzles, but occasionally some very unstable explosives will result. There have been numerous efforts to correct Powell’s work, but it isn’t worth the trouble to track them down. If you are actually looking for this sort of information, check out Kurt Saxon’s oeuvre, the Black Book series, and various military manuals.
The most interesting thing about the Anarchist Cookbook is that it was published by a major publisher and widely promoted. It was prominently displayed in mainstream book stores (physical locations were people used to buy print books). I can’t imagine such a thing happening today, in the era of mass shootings and jihadist terrorism. In 1971, the face of terrorism was a cute co-ed leaving a little-bitty bomb in an isolated restroom, set to go off after closing hours. It makes me nostalgic.
To Powell’s credit, he has tried to stop the constant re-issuing of Cookbook, but he long ago sold the rights. For a very interesting legal and publishing history of the Anarchist Cookbook, see The Wrong Hands, by Ann Larabee.… (mehr)