Alan Berkman (1945-2009) was no campus radical in the mid-1960s; he was a promising Ivy League student, football player, Eagle Scout, and fraternity president. But when he was a medical student and doctor, his politics began to change, and soon he was providing covert care to members of revolutionary groups like the Weather Underground and becoming increasingly radicalized by his experiences at the Wounded Knee takeover, at the Attica Prison uprising, and at health clinics for the poor. When the government went after him, he went underground and participated in bombings of government buildings. He was eventually captured and served eight years in some of America's worst penitentiaries, barely surviving two rounds of cancer. After his release in 1992, he returned to medical practice and became an HIV/AIDS physician, teacher, and global health activist.

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Prologue: children of the Holocaust and Cold War -- Part 1: Eagle Scout, fraternity president, doctor. Preview: remembering -- Born strong without fear -- The other 1960s student -- Dr. Salk or Dr. Lenin -- Political medicine -- Part 2: Into the struggle. Preview: the future -- Revolutionary road -- The left of the left -- Creating life, choosing love -- Violence, death, and their consequences -- Clandestine actions -- Part 3: Life and near death in the American gulag. Preview: The government strikes back -- Becoming Brother Doc -- Isolation and rethinking -- Resistance is not a crime -- A conspiracy for life -- PART 4: Saving lives: HIV/AIDS and global activism. Preview: breaking the silence -- Resurrection and social rage -- Confronting global HIV/AIDS -- His full self -- Coda: to love each other like warriors.