Flying close to the sun : my life and times as a Weatherman / Cathy Wilkerson
- Bib ID:
- 4242047
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Wilkerson, Cathy
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- New York : Seven Stories Press, 2007
- 422 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781583227718
- Summary:
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""On the morning of March 6, 1970, in the subbasement of 18 West 11th Street in Greenwich Village, a piece of ordinary water pipe, filled with dynamite, nails, and an electric blasting cap, ignited by mistake...""
"So begins this 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 blew up and escaped from a Greenwich Village townhouse, 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. While proud of many of the accomplishments of the 1960s, years later Wilkerson examines why, in 1970, she in effect accepted the same disregard for human life practiced by the government.
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 finds hope and faith in a world that at times seems to offer neither."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- New England soil
- North American roots
- Discovering the world
- The limits of electoral politics
- New left notes
- Washington SDS
- The question of power
- Weatherman
- The explosion
- The underground years.
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- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2007
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