The Martin Duberman Reader : The Essential Historical, Biographical, and Autobiographical Writings

M. Duberman

For the past fifty years, prize-winning historian Martin Duberman?s 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. Duberman is also a playwright and essayist. His writings have explored the shocking attempts by the medical establishment to 'cure' homosexuality; Stonewall, before and after; the age of AIDS; the struggle for civil rights; the fight for economic and racial justice; and Duberman?s vision for reclaiming a radical queer past from the creeping centrism of the gay movement. The Martin Duberman Reader assembles the core of Duberman?s most important writings, offering a wonderfully comprehensive overview of our lives and times - and giving us a crucial touchstone for a new generation of activists, scholars, and readers.