Indecent Advances
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Indecent Advances
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Author : James Polchin
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2020-05-26
Indecent Advances written by James Polchin and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-26 with Social Science categories.
Edgar Award finalist, Best Fact Crime American Masters (PBS), “1 of 5 Essential Culture Reads” One of CrimeReads’ “Best True Crime Books of the Year” “A fast–paced, meticulously researched, thoroughly engaging (and often infuriating) look–see into the systematic criminalization of gay men and widespread condemnation of homosexuality post–World War I.” —Alexis Burling, San Francisco Chronicle Stories of murder have never been just about killers and victims. Instead, crime stories take the shape of their times and reflect cultural notions and prejudices. In this Edgar Award–finalist for Best Fact Crime, James Polchin recovers and recounts queer stories from the crime pages―often lurid and euphemistic―that reveal the hidden history of violence against gay men. But what was left unsaid in these crime pages provides insight into the figure of the queer man as both criminal and victim, offering readers tales of vice and violence that aligned gender and sexual deviance with tragic, gruesome endings. Victims were often reported as having made “indecent advances,” forcing the accused's hands in self–defense and reducing murder charges to manslaughter. As noted by Caleb Cain in The New Yorker review of Indecent Advances, “it’s impossible to understand gay life in twentieth–century America without reckoning with the dark stories. Gay men were unable to shake free of them until they figured out how to tell the stories themselves, in a new way.” Indecent Advances is the first book to fully investigate these stories of how queer men navigated a society that criminalized them and displayed little compassion for the violence they endured. Polchin shows, with masterful insight, how this discrimination was ultimately transformed by activists to help shape the burgeoning gay rights movement in the years leading up to Stonewall.
Secret City
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Author : James Kirchick
language : en
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Release Date : 2022-05-31
Secret City written by James Kirchick and has been published by Henry Holt and Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-31 with History categories.
The New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 Named one of Vanity Fair's “Best Books of 2022” “Not since Robert Caro’s Years of Lyndon Johnson have I been so riveted by a work of history. Secret City is not gay history. It is American history.” —George Stephanopoulos Washington, D.C., has always been a city of secrets. Few have been more dramatic than the ones revealed in James Kirchick’s Secret City. For decades, the specter of homosexuality haunted Washington. The mere suggestion that a person might be gay destroyed reputations, ended careers, and ruined lives. At the height of the Cold War, fear of homosexuality became intertwined with the growing threat of international communism, leading to a purge of gay men and lesbians from the federal government. In the fevered atmosphere of political Washington, the secret “too loathsome to mention” held enormous, terrifying power. Utilizing thousands of pages of declassified documents, interviews with over one hundred people, and material unearthed from presidential libraries and archives around the country, Secret City is a chronicle of American politics like no other. Beginning with the tragic story of Sumner Welles, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s brilliant diplomatic advisor and the man at the center of “the greatest national scandal since the existence of the United States,” James Kirchick illuminates how homosexuality shaped each successive presidential administration through the end of the twentieth century. Cultural and political anxiety over gay people sparked a decades-long witch hunt, impacting everything from the rivalry between the CIA and the FBI to the ascent of Joseph McCarthy, the struggle for Black civil rights, and the rise of the conservative movement. Among other revelations, Kirchick tells of the World War II–era gay spymaster who pioneered seduction as a tool of American espionage, the devoted aide whom Lyndon Johnson treated as a son yet abandoned once his homosexuality was discovered, and how allegations of a “homosexual ring” controlling Ronald Reagan nearly derailed his 1980 election victory. Magisterial in scope and intimate in detail, Secret City will forever transform our understanding of American history.
A Dictionary Of The English Language
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Author : Johnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1818
A Dictionary Of The English Language written by Johnson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1818 with categories.
A Dictionary Of The English Language In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals And Illustrated In Their Different Significations Together With A History Of The Language And An English Grammar By Samuel Johnson Whith Numerous Corrections And With The Addition Of Several Thousand Words By The Rev H J Todd In Four Volumes Vol 1 4
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1818
A Dictionary Of The English Language In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals And Illustrated In Their Different Significations Together With A History Of The Language And An English Grammar By Samuel Johnson Whith Numerous Corrections And With The Addition Of Several Thousand Words By The Rev H J Todd In Four Volumes Vol 1 4 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1818 with categories.
A Dictionary Of The English Language In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals And Illustrated In Their Different Significations By Examples From The Best Writers To Which Are Prefixed A History Of The Language And An English Grammar
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Author : Samuel Johnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1833
A Dictionary Of The English Language In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals And Illustrated In Their Different Significations By Examples From The Best Writers To Which Are Prefixed A History Of The Language And An English Grammar written by Samuel Johnson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1833 with categories.
The Academician
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1820
The Academician written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1820 with Education categories.
A Dictionary Of The English Language
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Author : Robert Gordon Latham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
A Dictionary Of The English Language written by Robert Gordon Latham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with English language categories.
They Want Us Exterminated
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Author : Human Rights Watch (Organization)
language : en
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Release Date : 2009
They Want Us Exterminated written by Human Rights Watch (Organization) and has been published by Human Rights Watch this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Political Science categories.
This 67-page report documents a wide-reaching campaign of extrajudicial executions, kidnappings, and torture of gay men that began in early 2009. The killings began in the vast Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, a stronghold of Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia, and spread to many cities across Iraq. Mahdi Army spokesmen have promoted fears about the "third sex" and the "feminization" of Iraq men, and suggested that militia action was the remedy. Some people told Human Rights Watch that Iraqi security forces have colluded and joined in the killing.--Publisher description.
Shadow Men
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Author : James Polchin
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2024-06-11
Shadow Men written by James Polchin and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-11 with True Crime categories.
From Edgar Award finalist James Polchin comes a thrilling examination of the murder that captivated Jazz Age America, with echoes of the decadence and violence of The Great Gatsby On the morning of May 16, 1922, a young man’s body was found on a desolate road in Westchester County. The victim was penniless ex-sailor Clarence Peters. Walter Ward, the handsome scion of the family that owned the largest chain of bread factories in the country, confessed to the crime as an act of self-defense against a violent gang of “shadow men,” blackmailers who extorted their victims’ moral weaknesses. From the start, one question defined the investigation: What scandalous secret could lead Ward to murder? For sixteen months, the media fueled a firestorm of speculation. Unscrupulous criminal attorneys, fame-seeking chorus girls, con artists, and misogynistic millionaires harnessed the power of the press to shape public perception. New York governor and future presidential candidate Al Smith and editor of the Daily News Joseph Medill Patterson leveraged the investigation to further professional ambitions. Famous figures like Harry Houdini, Arthur Conan Doyle, and F. Scott Fitzgerald weighed in. As the bereaved working-class Peters family sought to bring the callous Ward to justice, America watched enraptured. Capturing the extraordinary twists and turns of the case, Shadow Men conjures the excess and contradictions of the Jazz Age and reveals the true-crime origins of the media-led voyeurism that reverberates through contemporary life. It’s a story of privilege and power that lays bare the social inequity that continues to influence our system of justice.
Cases Materials On Criminal Law
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Author : Mike Molan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-01-13
Cases Materials On Criminal Law written by Mike Molan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-13 with Law categories.
The range of thoughtfully selected materials and authoritative commentary ensures that this book provides a completely up-to-date collection of materials and analysis on this difficult and challenging area of law.