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A review by provenance
Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death by Lillian Faderman
4.0
I received this as a ARC from NetGalley.
I didn't feel like this added much that was not already covered in Randy Shilts' The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk, but I appreciated how readable Lillian Faderman's books always are. Her books are always very well researched and cited and she makes it read like popular nonfiction.
I also appreciated the full story of Galen McKinley being told. I stumbled upon the story of his life while processing the Tom O'Horgan Papers and it's a story that has never left me. He's mentioned like twice in Shilts' book but in Faderman's book you get a more complete story of Galen and his importance in both O'Horgan and Harvey's lives.
I didn't feel like this added much that was not already covered in Randy Shilts' The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk, but I appreciated how readable Lillian Faderman's books always are. Her books are always very well researched and cited and she makes it read like popular nonfiction.
I also appreciated the full story of Galen McKinley being told. I stumbled upon the story of his life while processing the Tom O'Horgan Papers and it's a story that has never left me. He's mentioned like twice in Shilts' book but in Faderman's book you get a more complete story of Galen and his importance in both O'Horgan and Harvey's lives.