Flying Close To The Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman

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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 were also ineffective in fomenting revolution.

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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

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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.