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Lillian Faderman - Harvey Milk, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Del i serien Jewish Lives

Harvey Milk

His Lives and Death

Av Lillian Faderman

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From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a lively and engaging biography of the first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States, a man fiercely committed to protecting all minorities“This elegantly written and well-researched book recovers the Jewishness that has too often been erased or glossed over in the mythologizing of a gay icon.”—Helene Meyers, TabletHarvey Milk—eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck—was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not served even a full year when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor. Milk’s assassination at the age of forty-eight made him the most famous gay man in modern history; twenty years later Time magazine included him on its list of the hundred most influential individuals of the twentieth century.Before finding his calling as a politician, however, Milk variously tried being a schoolteacher, a securities analyst on Wall Street, a supporter of Barry Goldwater, a Broadway theater assistant, a bead-wearing hippie, the operator of a camera store, and an organizer of the local business community in San Francisco. He rejected Judaism as a religion, but he was deeply influenced by the cultural values of his Jewish upbringing and his understanding of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. His early influences and his many personal and professional experiences finally came together when he decided to run for elective office as the forceful champion of gays, racial minorities, women, working people, the disabled, and senior citizens. In his last five years, he focused all of his tremendous energy on becoming a successful public figure with a distinct political voice.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-09-10
  • Mått: 140 x 210 x 22 mm
  • Vikt: 366 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Jewish Lives
  • Antal sidor: 304
  • Förlag: Yale University Press
  • ISBN: 9780300248555
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Lillian Faderman is a distinguished scholar of LGBT and ethnic history and literature. She is the author of The Gay Revolution

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“Faderman’s exploration of Milk’s dual outsider status as gay and Jewish is equal parts warm and scholarly.”—Karen Iris Tucker, Washington Post“Thanks to Lillian Faderman we now also know about Harvey the secular Jew, who renounced his faith but remained influenced and inspired by liberal Jewish values.”—Peter Tatchell, The Spectator“Faderman’s narrative mixes the personal and the political with great skill; subtly displaying how at a fundamental level, fighting for collective political rights is really just a human yearning for personal happiness, which usually has its roots in compassion.”—JP O’Malley, Irish Sunday Independent“Lillian Faderman offers a fresh and thoroughly documented take on this groundbreaking politician and gay Jewish martyr.”—Gregg Drinkwater, Western Historical QuarterlyFinalist in the 2018 National Jewish Book Award, biography categorySelected as one of the Top Ten Titles for the 2018 Over the Rainbow Booklist, sponsored by the GLBT Round Table of the American Library AssociationFinalist in the 2019 Lammys Awards, Gay Memoir/Biography categoryFinalist for the 2019 Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, sponsored by the Publishing Triangle“Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Lillian Faderman’s Harvey Milk is a revelation. This insightful work provides context to Milk’s life as a gay icon and illuminates how his experience was deeply informed by his own Jewish identity.”—Cleve Jones, author of When We Rise: My Life in the MovementPraise for Lillian Faderman:  “Faderman has a gloriously fanatical commitment to illuminating and commemorating her subjects. . . . Any revolutionary would be lucky to stand in a light so steady, so searching, and so sure.”—Kenji Yoshino, New York Times Book Review, on The Gay RevolutionPraise for Jewish Lives:  In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award.“Excellent.”—New York Times  “Exemplary.”—Wall Street Journal  “Distinguished.”—New Yorker  “Superb.”—The Guardian

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