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

Wilkerson, Cathy

ISBN 10: 1583229256 / ISBN 13: 9781583229255

Published by Seven Stories Press, 2010

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pp. 432 Reprint edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times As a Weatherman
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1583229256
• ISBN 13: 9781583229255
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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 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. In searching for new paradigms for change, Wilkerson asserts with brave humanity and confessional honesty an assessment of her past—of those heady, iconic times—and somehow finds hope and faith in a world that at times seems to offer neither.

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.