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

Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman
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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 the
legacy of the movement, at times finding contradictions that many others have avoided: the absence of womenâ€™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. In searching for new paradigms for change, Wilkerson asserts with brave humanity and confessional honesty an assessment of her pastâ€”of those heady, iconic timesâ€”and somehow finds hope and faith in a world that at times seems to offer neither.
Country USA
Brand Seven Stories Press
Manufacturer Seven Stories Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781583229255
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2010-08-17
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781583229255

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