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Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman - Softcover

Cathy Wilkerson

 
9781583229255: Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman

Synopsis

Flying Close to the Sun is the stunning memoir of a white middle-class girl from Connecticut who became a member of the notorious Weather Underground. Cathy Wilkerson, who famously escaped the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, here wrestles with the legacy 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 detonated in protest which caused little loss of life but which were also ineffective in fomenting revolution.

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About the Author

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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