![]() ![]() A great biography about a great American hero. ![]() Reading this moved me to tears, but also made me hopping mad with outrage. This is a book about Milk's "times", after all, as the book's title says, and as such it deeply examines the warped and sad attitudes of hate that did and do continue. The outrageous trial of the WASP assassin Dan White zeroes in on the carte blanche open-season on gays that society has managed to justify for so long. Interestingly, the final third of the book takes place after Milk's death. He was a politician, but he was an individualist in a system that molds people into machine parts. Milk was a con man to a degree, or at least a showman. Lest you think I treat him blindly as an icon, fret not. Milk believed in humans, not just gay humans, but all humans. And they were grand ideas, but always with a human face. The book is not just about his on-the-ground life, but his ideas, too. The appendices include several superb speeches by Milk the man was both a practical and philosophical adherent of making cities human. There were passages throughout that I wanted to mark and post here, but I didn't. I give it three stars for writing, four for reportage and five for being incredibly inspiring. ![]()
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