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Books : The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk |
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List Price: $16.95Amazon.com's Price: $11.53 You Save: $5.42 (32%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 320
EAN: 9780312560850
ISBN: 0312560850
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: October 14, 2008
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Sales Rank: 3584
Studio: St. Martin's Griffin
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Known as “The Mayor of Castro Street” even before he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk’s personal life, public career, and final assassination reflect the dramatic emergence of the gay community as a political power in America. It 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.
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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Rating: - A Man Without Fear
Author Randy Shilts was a journalist before he became a best selling author ("And The Band Played On", "Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military"). His chronicling of the life of Harvey Milk from New York to San Francisco bears witness to the everyman struggles of gay men of that period. From the arrests and harassments in bars to the ultimate victory of being the first gay man elected to United Sates office, Shilts details every aspect of Milk's life. People famous then and ... Read More
Rating: - Free at Last
Amazing performance by Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected politician in America. I bought this book after reading Dennis Schleicher's autobiography. Forbidden Love with a Married Man: E-mail Diaries I was so poignantly moved by his horrific gay bashing that occurred in 1989 at his public high school. Today when I spoke with the author of for the first time on the phone. Dennis started to get emotional as he said "Stephenie, I would have given anything to have had the opportunity ... Read More
Rating: - The Times of Harvey Milk
For all the GLBT people in elected office, we should never forget Harvey Milk. Thankfully, this biography of Milk has just been reissued - after far too long - and now there's no excuse to not read it.
A sobering moment comes right at the beginning of this book with the author's foreword. Randy Shilts wrote his foreword in July of 1981, the same month that the New York Times reported on a strange new disease that was found in gay men. Shilts himself eventually died of AIDS. I found myself ... Read More
Rating: - Remembering Harvey Milk
Shilts, Randy. "The Mayor of Castro Street", St. Martin's, 2008.
Remembering Harvey Milk
Amos Lassen
Harvey Milk is an icon in gay history and now with the film, Milk" with an amazing performance by Sean Penn, there is a renewed interest in the man that did so much to advance gay rights. St. Martin's has reissued Randy Shilts' biography of Milk, "The Mayor of Castro Street", which is a remarkable study of Milk as well as social history and a look at the world of politics. ... Read More
Rating:  - Interesting, raises some questions
The book contains a lot of information about Milk's life, which in itself is fascinating. My understanding is that Shilts was a friend of Milk's, which gives him insight (if biased) into the social circle of the Castro community.
The book's format is almost episodic, with each small section prefaced with an italicized tag line of sorts that leads into the story. It seems clear that this is a first effort at a book by Shilts, as some of the writing feels a little unpolished.
The big question ... Read More
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