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The Rest of It – Hustlers, Cocaine, Depression, and Then Some, 1976–1988

Autor Martin Duberman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 mar 2018
The Rest of It is the untold and revealing story of how Martin Duberman-a major historian and a founding figure in the history of gay and lesbian studies-managed to survive and be productive during a difficult twelve year period in which he was beset by drug addiction, health problems, and personal loss.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822370703
ISBN-10: 0822370700
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 159 x 239 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

Preface xi
1. My Mother's Death 1
2. Attempted Therapies: Theater, LSD, Bioenergetics 9
3. A New Kind of History: Gay Scholarship 14
4. Reading My Circadian Chart 26
5. Hustlers 37
6. A Heart Attack 45
7. The Reagan Years Begin 51
8. The New York Civil Liberties Union and the Gay Movement 56
9. Writing the Paul Robeson Biography 79
10. New York Native 91
11. CUNY, Christopher Lasch, and Eugene Genovese 96
12. The Onset of AIDS 107
13. Completing Robeson 117
14. The Salmagundi Controversy 126
15. Paul Robeson Jr. 135
16. Depression 139
17. Hospitalization 154
18. Getting Clean: AA and CA 162
19. East Germany and After 172
20. The Theater Again 181
21. Aftermaths: 1985–1988 187
Acknowledgments 223
Index 225

Notă biografică

Martin Duberman is Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus, at City University of New York, where he founded and directed the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies. He is the author of numerous histories, biographies, memoirs, essays, plays, and novels, which include Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey; Paul Robeson; Stonewall; Midlife Queer: Autobiography of a Decade, 1971–1981; Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community; The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein; Jews/Queers/Germans; and more than a dozen others. His biography of Charles Francis Adams won the Bancroft Prize, and his coedited anthology Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past won two Lambda Literary Awards. He won a third Lambda Award for Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS. Duberman received the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Historical Association, as well as two honorary degrees: Doctor of Humane Letters from Amherst College, and Doctor of Letters from Columbia University. He was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Duberman lives in New York City.