Stonewall
The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
$41.58
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
23 June 2011
Summary
In 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City’s Greenwich Village, changed the landscape of homosexual society quite literally overnight. Since then, the term ‘Stonewall’ itself has become almost synonymous with the struggle for gay rights. Based on hundreds of interviews, an exhaustive search of public and previously sealed files and over a decade of intensive research, Stonewall tells the definitive story of this singular event in history.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780312671938 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0312671938 |
| Author: | David R. Carter |
| Publisher: | Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 23 June 2011 |
| Weight: | 410g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 157mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
“A terrific piece of nonfiction, a satisfying and illuminating document that will be referred to time and again.” –The Advocate
“Considering all that went before, the ongoing repression and corruption, and the scent of social and political liberation in the air, Carter’s eloquent account makes it clear that something was bound to catch fire…A complete, full-bodied portrait, with lots of flesh on the bones of a strong narrative structure.” –Kirkus Reviews
“No matter what you may believe about the event, you will gain new insights. Historically important and socially significant.” –Dallas Morning News
“A gripping, hour-by-hour reconstruction…this definitive account is long overdue but well worth the wait.” –Richard Labonte, Bookmarks
“Stonewall presents a thorough and often compelling reconstruction of the nearly weeklong protest…provides thoughtful and sometimes delightfully quirky details about the era’s gay culture and politics, Greenwich Village itself, and the New Yorkers - from mobsters to flame queens to cops - who that morning stumbled into history.” –Providence Journal-Bulletin
“A beautifully written, suspenseful narrative that also meets the toughest tests of academic research.” –Bay Area Reporter
David R. Carter
David Carter (1952-2020) had a varied career as a writer, editor, and filmmaker. He is the author of biographies of Salvador Dali and George Santayana, he edited and compiled Spontaneous Mind, a collection of interviews with Allen Ginsberg, and directed the film Meher Baba in Italy for Peter Townshend. Carter has a B.A. from Emory University and an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin. He lived in Greenwich Village in New York City.
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