Harvey Milk [electronic resource] : His Lives and Death / Lillian Faderman.
"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...
| Uniform Title: | Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2018]
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Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1 A nice Jewish boy. The Milchs ; Deep, dark secrets ; Drifting ; Will-o'-the-wisps
- Part 2 "They call me the mayor of Castro street". "Who is this Mr. Yoyo?" ; Learning to put up the chairs ; Strike two ; Milk vs. the machine
- Part 3 A serious political animal. Victory ; Supervisor Milk ; Leading ; Dark clouds gathering
- Part 4 Martyr. "If a bullet should enter my brain ..." ; Aftermath
- Epilogue: Harvey Milk's legacy.