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The Martin Duberman reader: the essential historical, biographical, and autobiographical writings

Book information

Publisher
The, New Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781595588906, 9781595586797, 1595586792, 1595588906
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
386 kB (395101 bytes)
Pages
374 Seiten\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

For the past fifty years, prize-winning historian Martin Duberman’s groundbreaking writings have established him as one of our preeminent public intellectuals. Founder of the first graduate program in LGBT studies in the country, he is perhaps best known for his biographies of Paul Robeson, Lincoln Kirstein, and Howard Zinn—works that have been hailed as “magnificent” (USA Today), “enthralling” (The Washington Post), “splendid” and “definitive” (Studs Terkel, Chicago Sun-Times), and “refreshing and inspiring” (The New York Times). Duberman is also an equally gifted playwright and essayist, whose piercingly honest memoirs Cures and Midlife Queer have been called “witty and searingly candid” (Publishers Weekly), “wrenchingly eloquent” (Newsday), and “a moving chronicle” (The Nation). His writings have explored the...

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