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Fit to Serve: Reflections on a Secret Life, Private Struggle, and Public Battle to Become the First Openly Gay U.S. Ambassador - Hardcover

 
9781616083984: Fit to Serve: Reflections on a Secret Life, Private Struggle, and Public Battle to Become the First Openly Gay U.S. Ambassador
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Jim Hormel s spirited story is a refreshing reminder of the power of the individual in America. This book documents that a person driven by the courage of his or her convictions can still push the world to become a fairer, more equal place. --Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives Jim Hormel is that rarest of hyphenates: an activist-philanthropist. His generosity is legendary, but his greatest gift came not from his personal wealth but from his willingness to claim his own heart proudly and with unforgettable dignity in the face of public vilification. Well done, Mr. Ambassador --Armistead Maupin, Author of Tales of the City Jim Hormel 's spirited story is a refreshing reminder of the power of the individual in America. This book documents that a person driven by the courage of his or her convictions can still push the world to become a fairer, more equal place. --Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives Jim fought the right-wing smear machine and won. May his story inspire all those laboring against the hate and fear that pollutes our public discourse today. Jim reminds us that it s worth the fight. --David Brock, Founder, Media Matters for America Rich, engrossing, and deeply affecting, Fit To Serve is an intimate account of James Hormel s landmark journey from the deep confusion of a privileged but closeted life to the bold and unswerving activism through which he also found his best self. In the truest sense, this is a great American story. --Richard North Patterson, New York Times best-selling author Future generations will look at this book and experience their history told honestly and courageously --Moises Kaufman, Writer (with members of Tectonic Theater Project) of The Laramie Project Hormel recounts the controversies, from don t-ask-don t-tell to the Defense of Marriage Act, in the struggle for gay rights, and his own two-year roller-coaster ride to confirmation. --Vanessa Bush "A spirited, affecting life story." --Richard Labonte, author and critic
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This is the memoir of one of Hormel's heirs-a man who grew up feeling different not only because his family owned an empire and lived in a twenty-six bedroom house in a small town in Minnesota but because he was gay at a time when homosexuality was not discussed or accepted. James C. Hormel's life has been a journey of self-discovery, unfolding not in a single, great epiphany, but through aggregated moments of resistance to a society that demanded he deny his true self. Outwardly he tried to live up to the life his father wanted for him-he was a successful professional, had married a lovely woman and had children-but as the violence of the late 1960s impeded on the American psyche, Hormel realized that he could not hide his true self forever. He moved to New York City, became caught up in antiwar activism, battled homophobia rampant in his social circles, lost dear friends to AIDs, and set out for his greatest, and toughest, journey: becoming America's first openly gay ambassador, a position he finally won during the Clinton administration. Even today, Hormel continues to fight for LGBT equality and gay marriage right. A passionate and inspiring true story of fighting for human equality and for attaining your own version of the American Dream, whatever that may be.

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  • VerlagSkyhorse Publishing
  • Erscheinungsdatum2011
  • ISBN 10 1616083980
  • ISBN 13 9781616083984
  • EinbandTapa dura
  • Anzahl der Seiten320
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