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

Name: Flying Close to the Sun My Life and Times As a Weatherman
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ISBN: 9781583227718

ISBN-10: 1583227717

ISBN-13: 9781583227718

Edition: 2007

Authors: Cathy Wilkerson

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On the morning of March 6, 1970, in the sub-basement of 18 W 11th Street in Greenwich Village, an ordinary piece of water pipe filled with dynamite, nails and an electric blasting cap ignited by mistake . . . My Truths Be Told is the memoir of a white middle-class girl from the suburbs who became what today many would call a terrorist-a bomb-making member of the Weather Underground-who then came to learn the lessons of the 1960s that other radicals of all stripes seem not to have learned. Cathy Wilkerson, who famously blew up and escaped from her parents' Greenwich Village townhouse, here wrestles with the contradictions of the movement that still have not been publicly aired before now:…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publication date: 9/4/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.32" wide x 8.72" long x 1.37" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Introduction



New England Soil



North American Roots



Discovering the World



The Limits of Electoral Politics



New Left Notes



Washington SDS



1968



The Question of Power



Weatherman



The Explosion



The Underground Years



Reentry


Afterword



Chronology of Weatherman Bombings



Ted Gold, Diana Oughton, Terry Robbins


Bibliography


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index