The Mayor of Castro Street
The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
ISBN10: 0312560850
ISBN13: 9780312560850
Trade Paperback
418 Pages
$22.99
CA$31.50
The Mayor of Castro Street is Shilts's acclaimed story of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community in America during the 1970s. His is a story of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassination in City Hall and massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice and the consolidation of gay power and gay hope.
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Praise for The Mayor of Castro Street
"A no-holds-barred character study and a history of the local gay movement . . . An investigative piece on the mechanics of big-city government in all its expedient, back-biting splendor."—The Washington Post
"A remarkable work [of] biography, social history, and political machination . . . Exceptional."—The Los Angeles Times