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Flying Close to the Sun

My Life and Times as a Weatherman

ISBN-13: 9781583229255

Contributor(s): Cathy Wilkerson

Subject: Biography: General

Publisher Imprint: Seven Stories Press

Publication Date: 25-10-2010

Format: Paperback

Availability: In stock

£14.99

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About the book

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.