Duberman - Stonewall: the definitive story of the LGBTQ rights uprising that changed America

ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS ABOUT LESBIANS AND GAYS TO EMERGE SINCE STONEWALL.

Seattle Weekly

THRILLINGLY ZEROES LIKE A LASER ONTO TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD... six viewpoints artfully melted into one voice... moves like fiction toward a volatile climax. I couldnt put it down, and learned so much.

Ned Rorem

A POWERFUL AND COMPELLING BOOK that will make it harder for future sixties books to ignore the gay liberation movement.

The Nation

THE WORK OF A MAJOR HISTORIAN, just the kind of book you want to read: the real lives, the feel of the time, the experience of the struggle, the individuals who brought freedom and changes.

Kate Millett, author of Sexual Politics

ENGROSSING... a long overdue look at one of the seminal events in the history of gay activism. Important and absorbing.

Kirkus Reviews

PACKS THE DRAMATIC WALLOP OF A FAST-PACED NOVEL... shows individuals engaging in all the conflicts that emerged in the first years of the modern movement... demonstrates that the personal is historical and exciting.

Jonathan Ned Katz, author of Gay American History

INTERESTING... INSTRUCTIVE... Duberman argues correctly that Stonewall marked a generational, organizational, and ideological shift that brought gay liberation into the array of social protest.

New York Times Book Review

EXCITING AND POWERFUL... it will remind you how deeply the gay liberation impulse is rooted in both the race, class, and gender injustices of American life and the courageous resistance of ordinary people.

Allan Brub, author of Coming Out Under Fire

FASCINATING... DEEPLY AFFECTING FOR GAYS, DEEPLY INFORMATIVE FOR NONGAYS.

Booklist

A POWERFUL AND COMPELLING NARRATIVE that shows how an oppressed minority arrived at a historic moment and changed forever the way they would view themselves and how others would view them.

Library Journal

ALIVE AND EXCITING while still instructive to anyone, gay or straight, who seeks to understand the beginnings of the modern-day gay rights struggle.

Virginian Pilot & Ledger-Star

BRILLIANTLY CONCEIVED... written with the power and sensitivity accumulated from a lifelong commitment to historical research... hard to put down... a must read!

Elizabeth Kennedy, author of Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community

Arguably the most significant single whosiwhatsis in modern gay history... deeply informative.

New York Daily News

MARVELOUS... WONDERFUL... captures the excitement of the moment with sharp detail... brings to life the frustrations that finally erupted on the streets of Greenwich Village.

Providence Sunday Journal

MOVING... DUBERMAN RISES TO HISTORYS MOST CRUCIAL CHALLENGES as he expertly chronicles how long and tortuous the road to Stonewall actually was.

Washington Post

GRIPPING... revives the epochal Stonewall riots by crosscutting intriguing portraits of six disparate yet representative participants.

Village Voice

Provides valuable historical and personal context to that defining moment when drag queens, lesbians, and gay men in New York City fought a police raid on the Stonewall Inn.

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

VIVID... Like the good dramatist that he is, Duberman builds up his narrative so that by the time it arrives at the riots themselves they will appear to be both natural and inevitable.

Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

Martin Duberman has rescued from oblivion and preserved for posterity the primal episode of our history as gay Americans. Even though I lived it, I was beginning to forget, and we know what happens to those who forget the past. Thank you, Martin Duberman, we are all in your debt.

Terrence McNally

Dubermans skill at creating drama, setting scenes, and drawing characters makes Stonewall a page-turner as well as an intelligent history.

Lexington Herald-Leader

COMPELLING and interesting reading.

Philadelphia Gay News

Vivid and detailed portraits... structured with drama and suspense... fine history and storytelling.

Lillian Faderman, author of Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers

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