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Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death
Faderman, Lillian
Éditeur : YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
ISBN papier: 9780300248555
Parution : 2019
Code produit : 1389397
Catégorisation :
Livres /
Littérature générale /
Livre pratique /
Biographie
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| Format | Qté. disp. | Prix* | Commander |
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| Livre papier | En rupture de stock** |
Prix membre : 21,61 $ Prix non-membre : 24,01 $ |
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**Ce produits est en rupture de stock mais sera expédié dès qu'ils sera disponible.
Description
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.