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He lives in Summit, New Jersey with his wife Marla and their two sons.

Burrough's oth­er books include Vendetta: American Express and the Smearing of Edmund Safra (HarperCollins, 1992), Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir (HarperCollins, 1998) and Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34 (Penguin Press, 2004).īurrough is a three-time winner of the John Hancock Award for excellence in financial journalism. 1 on the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for 39 weeks. In 1990, with Journal colleague John Heylar, he co-authored Barbarians at the Gate (HarperCollins), which was No. Prior to joining Vanity Fair, Burrough was an investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal. His profile subjects have included Sumner Redstone, Larry Ellison, Mike Ovitz, and Ivan Boesky. He has reported on a wide range of topics, including the events that led to the war in Iraq, the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, and the Anthony Pellicano case. Drawing on interviews about their experiences with members of the underground & the FBI, Days of Rage is a look into the hearts & minds of homegrown terrorists & federal agents alike, weaving their stories into a secret history of the '70s.īryan Burrough joined Vanity Fair in August 1992 and has been a special correspondent for the magazine since January 1995. But Squad 47 itself broke laws in its attempts to bring the revolutionaries to justice. The FBI’s response included the formation of a secret task force, Squad 47, dedicated to hunting the groups down. Burrough's Days of Rage recreates an atmosphere almost unbelievable decades later, conjuring a time of native-born radicals, often nice middle-class kids, smuggling bombs into skyscrapers & detonating them inside the Pentagon & the Capitol, at a Boston courthouse & a Wall Street restaurant.

The FBI combated these & other groups as nodes of a single revolutionary underground dedicated to the violent overthrow of the USA. From the bestselling author of Public Enemies & The Big Rich, an account of the battle between the FBI & revolutionary movements of the '70s: Weathermen, The Symbionese Liberation Army, The FALN, The Black Liberation Army. The names seem quaint now, but then bombings by domestic underground groups were daily occurrences.