Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman
by Cathy Wilkerson
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Author: Cathy WilkersonEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-04
ISBN: 1583227717
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
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- ISBN13: 9781583227718
- Condition: New
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Book Review: "Time is a great teacher." --Carl Sandberg
Summary: 5 Stars
Cathy Wilkerson gives a thoughtful memoir of her life in SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) and the Weather Underground. She also provides enough personal background to explain how she became involved in US radical politics in the 1960s. Her final chapter Reentry gives a brief summary of her life afterwards.
Wilkerson is famous for being one of the two people to survive the 1970 explosion of the Greenwich Village townhouse where a bomb was being assembled. This incident is described in chapter 10 of the book.
She is careful not to discuss the motivations or actions of others in the movement which, while understandable, gives a certain limitation to her story. Yet as the reflections of an American radical this is an excellent book, providing insight into her personality, the movement, and the events of the time. What stands out clearest in this writing is the support that Wilkerson and the Weather Underground wanted to show for the Black Panthers in the fight against Racism in the United States. The hardest part for readers to understand today may be the Maoist/Leninist revolutionary tactics that were the signature belief of this faction of the radical left.
In the opening pages of the book Wilkerson quotes Carl Sandburg:
"You can't hinder the wind from blowing.
Time is a great teacher.
Who can live without hope?"
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