Lillian Faderman
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
An acclaimed writer on her mother’s tumultuous life as a Jewish immigrant in 1930s New York and her life-long guilt when the Holocaust claims the family she left behind in Latvia
A story of love, war, and life as a Jewish immigrant in the squalid factories and lively dance halls of New York’s Garment District in the 1930s, My Mother’s Wars is the memoir Lillian Faderman’s mother was never
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xx, 794 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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A chronicle of the modern struggle for gay, lesbian and transgender rights draws on interviews with politicians, military figures, legal activists and members of the LGBT community to document the cause's struggles since the 1950s.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
viii, 283 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
