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Bill Ayers

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December 26, 1944 in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, The United States

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http://www.billayers.org/index.php

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Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Biographies & Memoirs

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William Charles "Bill" Ayers is an American elementary education theorist and a former leader in the movement that opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. He is known for his 1960's activism as well as his current work in education reform, curriculum, and instruction. In 1969 he co-founded the Weather Underground, a self-described communist revolutionary group that conducted a campaign of bombing public buildings during the 1960s and 1970s, motivated by US involvement in the Vietnam War. He is now a professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, holding the titles of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar. During the 2008 Presidential campaign, a controversy arose over his co...more

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Books by Bill Ayers

Average rating: 3.71 · 465 ratings · 102 reviews · 16 distinct works

	Fugitive Days: A Memoir 3.66 avg rating — 267 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	My rating:
	A Kind and Just Parent 3.69 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Teaching Toward Freedom: Moral Commitment and Ethical Action in the Classroom 3.78 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Teaching for Social Justice: A Democracy and Education Reader by Bill Ayers (Editor), Therese Quinn (Editor), Jean Ann Hunt (Editor) 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Race Course Against White Supremacy: Against White Supremacy by Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, William C. Ayers 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Sing a Battle Song: The Revolutionary Poetry, Statements, and Communiqués of the Weather Underground, 1970-1974 by Bernardine Dohrn (Editor), Bill Ayers (Editor), Jeff Jones (Editor) 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Businesses Represent Everything You Want To Fight For From Free Speech To Buying Local To Building Communities by Andrew Laties (Goodreads Author), Bill Ayers, Ed Morrow (Contributor) 4.07 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Racism Explained to My Daughter by Tahar Ben Jelloun, Bill Ayers, Lisa D. Delpit 3.59 avg rating — 147 ratings — 17 editions	My rating:
	A Simple Justice: The Challenge for Small Schools by William Ayers (Editor), Bill Ayers (Editor), Michael Klonsky 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	A Light in Dark Times: Maxine Greene and the Unfinished Conversation by Maxine Greene, Janet L. Miller (Editor), Bill Ayers (Editor) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating: