Whether you trust her as a narrator or believe her story exactly as she tells it (and I think there’s plenty of reason to believe almost all of her story, and trust most of her story as narrator), it’s hard to come away from this book or any write-up of Assata Shakur’s life and not feel like she was absolutely railroaded by the US government. Sometimes people in liberal-ish circles have a real hard time dealing with ambivalent or worse contradictory feelings about the US. […]