Ebook {Epub PDF} The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts

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In addition to his extensive journalism, Shilts wrote three books. His first book, The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk, is a biography of openly gay San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, who was assassinated by a political rival, Dan White, in The book broke new ground, being written at a time when "the very idea. Randy Shilts. Macmillan, - Biography Autobiography - pages. 14 Reviews. The Mayor of Castro Street is Shilts's acclaimed story of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community in America during the s. The Mayor of Castro Street is Shilts's acclaimed story of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community in America during the s. Known as The Mayor of Castro Street even before he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk's personal and political life is a.

The Mayor of Castro Street is Shilts's acclaimed story of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the. Harvey Milk has become, deservedly, something of a legend in the gay rights movement and in the broader history of San Francisco politics. In The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk, Randy Shilts attempts to separate man from myth and then put it back together again. Randy Shilts' "The Mayor of Castro Street" is a biography of the life and times of the tragically assassinated San Francisco politician Harvey Milk. Shilts was the first openly gay journalist who expands on the life of Harvey, the first openly gay politician who became the face of the Gay movement arising in the 's in America.