Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman Summary and Reviews

Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman
by Cathy Wilkerson

Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman
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Author: Cathy Wilkerson
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-01
ISBN: 1583227717
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Seven Stories Press

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Book Review: Weatherman, Even the Organization Name Rendered Women Invisible
Summary: 5 Stars

I was part of the SDS in the 1960s. I too went with the Weather Faction and considered myself Weatherman from the Conference in Chicago until after Townhouse. I still think of before and after Townhouse.

Many of the reviews of Weather memoirs talk about the violence committed by Weather, yet there was far more violence committed by the right wing from the civil rights worker murders through the killing of the Panthers.

Cathy's book is a rarity. Most of what is written of this period is through the eyes of the male participants. Their books so often relegate women to invisibility. This book helps rectify some of that erasing of women from movement history.

It has been trendy to retroactively apply the term terrorist to Weather, yet most of the violence was directed towards property rather than people.

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