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Harvey Milk - His Lives and Death (Paperback)
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Harvey Milk - His Lives and Death (Paperback)
Series: Jewish Lives
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A lively and engaging biography of the first openly gay man elected
to public office in the United States, a man fiercely committed to
protecting all minorities 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 in modern
history; twenty years later Time magazine included him on its list
of the hundred most influential individuals of the twentieth
century. Before finding his calling as a politician, however,
Harvey variously tried being a schoolteacher, a securities analyst
on Wall Street, a supporter of Barry Goldwater, a Broadway theater
assistant, a bead-wearing hippie, the operator of a camera store
and organizer of the local business community in San Francisco. He
rejected Judaism as a religion, but he was deeply influenced by the
cultural values of his Jewish upbringing and his understanding of
anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. His early influences and his many
personal and professional experiences finally came together when he
decided to run for elective office as the forceful champion of
gays, racial minorities, women, working people, the disabled, and
senior citizens. In his last five years, he focused all of his
tremendous energy on becoming a successful public figure with a
distinct political voice.
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