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OverviewFlying 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Cathy WilkersonPublisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S. Imprint: Seven Stories Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.455kg ISBN: 9781583229255ISBN 10: 1583229256 Pages: 432 Publication Date: 17 August 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsUnsparingly maps the idealism, fanaticism, moral absolutism and personal passions that carried her to the townhouse [explosion]. -The New York Times Clear-sighted, self-critical yet unapologetic account. -The Los Angeles Times Unsparingly maps the idealism, fanaticism, moral absolutism and personal passions that carried her to the townhouse [explosion]. -The New York Times Clear-sighted, self-critical yet unapologetic account. -The Los Angeles Times Author InformationCATHY 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |