Desc: American Anarchist: Directed by Charlie Siskel. With William Powell, Charlie Siskel, Ochan Kusuma-Powell, Jeff Nightbyrd. The story of one of the most infamous books ever written, "The Anarchist Cookbook," and the role it's played in the life of its author, now 65, who wrote it at 19 in the midst of the counterculture upheaval of the late '60s and early '70s.