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Harvey Milk His Lives and Death

Faderman, Lillian
Heftet / 2019 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780300248555
Publisert
2019-11-12
Utgiver
Vendor
Yale University Press
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Faderman, Lillian

Biographical note

Lillian Faderman is a distinguished scholar of LGBT and ethnic history and literature. She is the author of The Gay Revolution.

Harvey Milk His Lives and Death

Faderman, Lillian
Heftet / 2019 / Engelsk
Faderman, Lillian
Heftet / 2019 / Engelsk
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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, <i>Washington Post</i><br /><br />“Thanks to Lillian Faderman we know also know about Harvey the secular Jew, who renounced his faith but remained influenced and inspired by liberal Jewish values.”—Peter Tatchell, <i>Spectator</i><br /><br />“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, <i>Irish Sunday Independent</i><br /><br />“Lillian Faderman offers a fresh and thoroughly documented take on this groundbreaking politician and gay Jewish martyr.”— Gregg Drinkwater, <i>Western Historical Quarterly</i><br /><br /><i>Harvey Milk</i> by Lillian Faderman was chosen to be included on the 2019 Over the Rainbow Recommended Book List<br /><br />Finalist in the 2018 National Jewish Book Award, biography category<br />  <br /><br /><p>Selected as one of the Top Ten Titles for the 2018 Over the Rainbow Booklist, sponsored by the GLBT Round Table of the American Library Association</p>  <br /><br />Finalist in the 2019 Lammys Awards, Gay Memoir/Biography category<br /><br />Finalist for the 2019  Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, sponsored by the Publishing Triangle<br /><br />“Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Lillian Faderman’s <i>Harvey Milk</i> 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 <i>When We Rise: My Life in the Movement</i><br /><br />

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 Harvey Milk—eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck—was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office 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, Harvey 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 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.
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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 know also know about Harvey the secular Jew, who renounced his faith but remained influenced and inspired by liberal Jewish values.”—Peter Tatchell, 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 QuarterlyHarvey Milk by Lillian Faderman was chosen to be included on the 2019 Over the Rainbow Recommended Book ListFinalist in the 2018 National Jewish Book Award, biography category  Selected as one of the Top Ten Titles for the 2018 Over the Rainbow Booklist, sponsored by the GLBT Round Table of the American Library Association  Finalist 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 Movement
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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, <i>Washington Post</i><br /><br />“Thanks to Lillian Faderman we know also know about Harvey the secular Jew, who renounced his faith but remained influenced and inspired by liberal Jewish values.”—Peter Tatchell, <i>Spectator</i><br /><br />“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, <i>Irish Sunday Independent</i><br /><br />“Lillian Faderman offers a fresh and thoroughly documented take on this groundbreaking politician and gay Jewish martyr.”— Gregg Drinkwater, <i>Western Historical Quarterly</i><br /><br /><i>Harvey Milk</i> by Lillian Faderman was chosen to be included on the 2019 Over the Rainbow Recommended Book List<br /><br />Finalist in the 2018 National Jewish Book Award, biography category<br />  <br /><br /><p>Selected as one of the Top Ten Titles for the 2018 Over the Rainbow Booklist, sponsored by the GLBT Round Table of the American Library Association</p>  <br /><br />Finalist in the 2019 Lammys Awards, Gay Memoir/Biography category<br /><br />Finalist for the 2019  Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, sponsored by the Publishing Triangle<br /><br />“Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Lillian Faderman’s <i>Harvey Milk</i> 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 <i>When We Rise: My Life in the Movement</i><br /><br />

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 Harvey Milk—eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck—was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office 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, Harvey 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 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.
Les mer
"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 know also know about Harvey the secular Jew, who renounced his faith but remained influenced and inspired by liberal Jewish values.”—Peter Tatchell, 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 QuarterlyHarvey Milk by Lillian Faderman was chosen to be included on the 2019 Over the Rainbow Recommended Book ListFinalist in the 2018 National Jewish Book Award, biography category  Selected as one of the Top Ten Titles for the 2018 Over the Rainbow Booklist, sponsored by the GLBT Round Table of the American Library Association  Finalist 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 Movement
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780300248555
Publisert
2019-11-12
Utgiver
Vendor
Yale University Press
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Faderman, Lillian

Biographical note

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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