Flying Close to the Sun
My Life and Times as a Weatherman
$41.44
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2011
Summary
Flying Close to the Sun is the stunning memoir of a white middle-class girl from Connecticut who became a member of the Weather Underground, one of the most notorious groups of the 1960s. Cathy Wilkerson, who famously escaped the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, here wrestles with thelegacy of the movement, at times finding contradictions that many others have avoided- the absence of women’s voices then, and in the retelling; the incompetence and the egos; the hundreds of bombs detonate…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781583229255 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1583229256 |
| Author: | Cathy Wilkerson |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 455g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Seven Stories Press |
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Critics Review
“Unsparingly maps the idealism, fanaticism, moral absolutism and personal passions that carried her to the townhouse [explosion].” –The New York Times “Clear-sighted, self-critical yet unapologetic account.” –The Los Angeles Times
About The Author
Cathy Wilkerson
CATHY WILKERSON was active in the civil rights movement, Students for a Democratic Society, and the Weathermen. In 1970, she was one of two women to survive an explosion in the basement of her family’s townhouse that killed three Weathermen, forcing the group underground. For the past twenty years she has worked as a mathematics educator in New York City schools.
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