Flying Close to the Sun My Life and Times As a Weatherman |
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Author:
| Wilkerson, Cathy |
ISBN: | 978-1-58322-925-5 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2010 |
Publisher: | Seven Stories Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $18.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionThe 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.