Thai Jones is familiar with protest and its consequences. Born while his parents were fugitives from justice, he went by a series of aliases until the age of four. His first book, A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family’s Century of Conscience, was a personal exploration of the history behind that experience. More Powerful Than Dynamite stems from Jones’s PhD work at Columbia University. Formerly a reporter for Newsday, he has written for a variety of national publications, ranging from the New York Times to Monthly Review. A graduate of Vassar College and the Columbia School of Journalism, he lives in New York City.