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Flying Close To The Sun

My Life and Times as a Weatherman

ISBN-13: 9781583227718

Contributor(s): Cathy Wikerson

Subjects: Biography: General

Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Publisher Imprint: Seven Stories Press

Publication Date: 04-10-2007

Format: Hardback

Availability: Out of stock

£14.99

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About the book

The memoir of a white middle-class girl from the suburbs who became a terrorist - a bomb-maker for the Weather Underground - and then came to learn lessons from the 1960s that other radicals may not necessarily have cottoned on to. Wilkerson, who famously blew up and escaped from her parents' Greenwich Village townhouse, wrestles with the contradictions of a revolutionary movement: the absence of women's voices; the incompetence and the egos; the hundreds of bombs detonated in protest, taking lives without ever causing revolutionary foment.

Flying Close To The Sun

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