Flying Close to the Sun

by Wilkerson, Cathy

• ISBN13: 9781583227718
• ISBN10: 1583227717
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-04
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Summary

The gentle truth of what went wrong in the sixties.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 11
New England Soil	p. 15
North American Roots	p. 37
Discovering the World	p. 53
The Limits of Electoral Politics	p. 101
New Left Notes	p. 109
Washington SDS	p. 145
1968	p. 181
The Question of Power	p. 251
Weatherman	p. 275
The Explosion	p. 355
The Underground Years	p. 359
Reentry	p. 389
Afterword	p. 399
Chronology of Weatherman Bombings	p. 405
Ted Gold, Diana Oughton, Terry Robbins	p. 406
Bibliography	p. 415
Notes	p. 437
Acknowledgments	p. 429
Index	p. 437
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