Lumpen;

More than a memoir, Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead takes the reader on a tour of Americas underbelly. From Iowa to Compton to Venice Beach to Fairbanks, Alaska, Mead introduces you to poor America just trying to get byand barely making it. When a thirteen-year-old Mead ends up in the Utah State Industrial School, a prison for boys, it is the first step in a story of oppression and revolt that will ultimately lead to the foundation of the George Jackson Brigade, a Seattle-based urban guerrilla group, and to Meads re-incarceration as a fully engaged revolutionary, well-placed and prepared to take on both