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My Life and Times As a Weatherman
Seven Stories Press
September 2007
On Sale: September 1, 2007
422 pages
ISBN: 1583227717
EAN: 9781583227718
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
“On the morning of March 6, 1970, in the subbasement of 18
W. 11th Street in Greenwich Village, a piece of ordinary
water pipe, filled with dynamite, nails, and an electric
blasting cap, ignited by mistake…” So begins this stunning memoir of a white middle-class girl
from Connecticut who became a member of the Weather
Underground, one of the most notorious groups of the 1960s.
Cathy Wilkerson, who famously blew up and escaped from a
Greenwich Village townhouse, here wrestles with the legacy
of the movement, at times looking at contradictions of the
movement 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. While proud of many of
the accomplishments of the 1960s, years later Wilkerson
examines why, in 1970, she in effect accepted the same
disregard for human life practiced by the government. In
searching for new paradigms for change, Wilkerson asserts
with brave humanity and confessional honesty an assessment
of her past—of those heady, iconic times—and finds hope and
faith in a world that at times seems to offer neither.
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