Confessions of American Anarchism
Aug 25, 2017 · 5 min read
In 1971, at 19, William Powell wrote The Anarchist Cookbook. The book has been found at bombings, and school shootings, ever since.
It is hard to believe that the author of this infamous book left the country almost immediately afterward, to be a school teacher. He forgot about his book to the best of his ability.
“I haven’t read it since I wrote it,” he said, in a documentary film that came out in late 2016.
He denied that he ever knew that his book was the go-to manual for American terror. He thought it would just ‘die…

