The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life & Times of Harvey Milk - Softcover

Shilts, Randy

 
9780312560850: The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life & Times of Harvey Milk
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0312560850 ISBN 13: 9780312560850
Verlag: St. Martin's Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

The Mayor of Castro Street is Shilts's acclaimed story of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community in America during the 1970s.

Known as "The Mayor of Castro Street" even before he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk's personal and political life is a story full of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassinations at City Hall, massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice, and the consolidation of gay power and gay hope.

The Mayor of Castro Street is a story of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassination in City Hall and massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice and the consolidation of gay power and gay hope.

Harvey Milk has been the subject of numerous books and movies, including the Academy Award-winning 1984 documentary, The Times of Harvey Milk. His life is also the basis of a 2008 major motion picture, Milk, starring Sean Penn.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Randy Shilts was one of the first openly gay journalists hired at a major newspaper and worked for the San Francisco Chronicle for thirteen years. He died of AIDS in 1994 at his home in the Sonoma County redwoods in California. He was the author of several groundbreaking bestsellers, including And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (1987) and Conduct Unbecoming: Lesbians and Gays in the U.S. Military (1993).

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Verlag
St. Martin's Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0312560850
ISBN 13 
9780312560850
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
418
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