Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman - Couverture souple

Wilkerson, Cathy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1583229256 ISBN 13 : 9781583229255

Editeur : Seven Stories Press, 2010

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seven Stories Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1583229256
• ISBN 13: 9781583229255
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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