ALSO BY CHRISTOPHER BRAM
Fiction
Surprising Myself
Hold Tight
In Memory of Angel Clare
Almost History
Gods and Monsters
Gossip
The Notorious Dr. August: His Real Life and Crimes
Lives of the Circus Animals
Exiles in America
Nonfiction
Mapping the Territory: Selected Nonfiction
Contents
Front Cover Image
Welcome
Dedication
Introduction
Part I: Into the Fifties
Chapter One: Innocence
Chapter Two: The Kindness of Strangers
Chapter Three: Howl
Chapter Four: Soul Kiss
Chapter Five: Going Hollywood
Part II: The Sixties
Chapter Six: The Great Homosexual Theater Scare
Chapter Seven: The Medium Is the Message
Chapter Eight: Love and Sex and A Single Man
Chapter Nine: The Whole World Is Watching
Chapter Ten: Riots
Part III: The Seventies
Chapter Eleven: Old and Young
Chapter Twelve: Love Songs
Chapter Thirteen: Annus Mirabilis
Chapter Fourteen: White Noise
Part IV: The Eighties
Chapter Fifteen: Illness and Metaphor
Chapter Sixteen: Dead Poets Society
Chapter Seventeen: Tales of Two or Three Cities
Chapter Eighteen: Laughter in the Dark
Part V: The Nineties and After
Chapter Nineteen: Angels
Chapter Twenty: Rising Tide
Chapter Twenty-one: High Tide
Epilogue: Rewriting America
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Permissions
About the Author
Also by Christopher Bram
Copyright
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Copyright © 2012 by Christopher Bram
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