The American people. Volume 2, The brutality of fact
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780374104139, 0374104131
Physical Desc
880 pages ; 24 cm
Status
Copies
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Bedford - Adult | Fiction/Kramer | On Shelf |
Cambridge - Adult | FICTION Kramer, Larry | On Shelf |
More Details
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780374104139, 0374104131
Notes
Description
"In The American people: volume 2: The brutality of fact, Larry Kramer completes his radical reimagining of his country's history. Ranging from the brothels of 1950s Washington, D.C., to the activism of the 1980s and beyond, Kramer offers an elaborate phantasmagoria of bigoted conspirators in the halls of power and ordinary individuals suffering their consequences. With wit and bite, Kramer explores (among other things) the sex lives of every recent president; the complicated behavior of America's two greatest spies, J. Edgar Hoover and James Jesus Angleton; the rise of Sexopolis, the country's favorite magazine; and the genocidal activities of every branch of our health-care and drug-delivery systems. The American people: volume 2 is narrated by (among others) the writer Fred Lemish and his two friends -- Dr. Daniel Jerusalem, who works for America's preeminent health-care institution, and his twin brother, David Jerusalem, a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp who was abused by many powerful men. Together they track a terrible plague that intensifies as the government ignores it and depict the bold and imaginative activists who set out to shock the nation's conscience. In Kramer's telling, the United States is dedicated to the proposition that very few men are created equal, and those who love other men may be destined for death. Here is a historical novel like no other -- satiric and impassioned and driven by an uncompromising moral and literary vision."--,Publisher's website.
Subjects
LC Subjects
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- United States -- Fiction.
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- United States -- Fiction.
AIDS activists -- United States -- Fiction.
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Brothers -- Fiction.
Gay people -- United States -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Heterosexism -- Fiction.
Holocaust survivors -- Fiction.
Homophobia -- Fiction.
Political corruption -- Fiction.
United States -- History -- Fiction.
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- United States -- Fiction.
AIDS activists -- United States -- Fiction.
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Brothers -- Fiction.
Gay people -- United States -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Heterosexism -- Fiction.
Holocaust survivors -- Fiction.
Homophobia -- Fiction.
Political corruption -- Fiction.
United States -- History -- Fiction.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Kramer, L. (2020). The American people (First edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kramer, Larry. 2020. The American People. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kramer, Larry. The American People Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Kramer, Larry. The American People First edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
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