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Conduct Unbecoming
by Randy Shilts
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Ballantine Books (1994-05-10)
ISBN: 0449909174
EAN: 9780449909171
Dewy Decimal #: 355.008664
Paperback: 832 pages
Edition: 1 Ballanti
Release Date: 1994-05-10
Condition: Good
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Editorial Reviews
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Amazon.com
When Randy Shilts's Conduct Unbecoming was published in 1995, it was greeted as the major analysis of homosexuality and the U.S. military to date; this continues to be true. Shilts's collage of historical research, interviews, and U.S. military documents (both public and confidential) portrays in detail the vital role that gay men and lesbians have always played in the armed forces, and painstakingly--and painfully--exposes how homophobic and often irrational government policies have demonized them through lies, witch-hunts, and antigay purges. As he did in And the Band Played On, his documentary history of the AIDS epidemic, Shilts takes large issues and histories and renders them into readable, understandable narratives. In Conduct Unbecoming he has uncovered new information about homosexuality and the military and has woven it together in a seamless fashion that combines the personal and the political in such a vibrant way that the arguments for basic gay civil rights become irrefutable. Particularly interesting is the story of Dr. Tom Dooley, a gay man who became a folk-legend praised for his humanitarian and anticommunist work in the 1950s, while at the same time persecuted for his refusal to hide his homosexuality. Conduct Unbecoming is a milestone in gay history and social theory; compelling, readable, and always illuminating, it is invaluable in understanding contemporary gay and lesbian politics and culture. --Michael Bronski
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Product Description
"A sober, thoroughly researched and engrossingly readable history on the subject. [Shilts'] chronicle is excellent military history, closely woven with an entrhalling analysis of the changing definitions of sexuality and personal relationships in American society....[A] landmark book....Remarkable."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Written by the author of the highly acclaimed AND THE BAND PLAYED ON, this extraordinary and unique exploration of gays in the military and gay persecution in the miliatary is nothing short of a masterpiece of investigative reporting. Shilts spoke with hundreds of lesbian and gays in all levels of the military and tells their stories of pain and pride with an attention to detail and depth of feeling that will leave readers moved and educated and with better understanding.
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