After finishing up the first section on the Weather Underground, I do feel like the author comes across as sympathetic to them. I think it's mainly the style of prose though. He tends to really humanize, like at Townhouse where he describes Wilkerson barefooted ironing sheets right before the house explodes.

At other times though, he doesn't shy away from criticizing a lot of common knowledge about Weatherman as propaganda. I.e. their plans always involved actually killing people from the start, regardless of what Ayers might espouse.

I do find it funny that the guys lower on the totem pole he quotes describe what they were doing as playacting (LARPing lel), and Wilkerson blaming townhouse on sexism, rather than you know, none of these wannabe revolutionary academics actually knowing how to handle dynamite