"A balanced, well-written account which provides the best overall understanding of these events. -Library Journal. "Compelling."-Publishers Weekly. "A solid report from an unusual perspective."-Kirkus Reviews "A balanced view."-Booklist. On a narrow street in a working-class neighborhood, the police are held at bay by a small band of armed radicals. Two assaults have already failed. After a morning-long battle involving machine guns, explosives, and tear gas, the radicals remain defiant. In a command post across the street from the boarded-up row house that serves as the militants' headquarters, the beleaguered police commissioner weighs his options and decides on a new plan. He will bomb the house. Let It Burn is the true-life story of the confrontation between the Philadelphia Police Department and the MOVE organization-a group that rejected modern technology and fought for what it called "natural law." The police commissioner's decision to drop an...

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