Contents

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Part I: Into the Fifties

Chapter One: Innocence

Chapter Two: The Kindness of Strangers

Chapter Three: Howl

Chapter Four: Soul Kiss

Chapter Five: Going Hollywood

Part II: The Sixties

Chapter Six: The Great Homosexual Theater Scare

Chapter Seven: The Medium Is the Message

Chapter Eight: Love and Sex and A Single Man

Chapter Nine: The Whole World Is Watching

Chapter Ten: Riots

Part III: The Seventies

Chapter Eleven: Old and Young

Chapter Twelve: Love Songs

Chapter Thirteen: Annus Mirabilis

Chapter Fourteen: White Noise

Part IV: The Eighties

Chapter Fifteen: Illness and Metaphor

Chapter Sixteen: Dead Poets Society

Chapter Seventeen: Tales of Two or Three Cities

Chapter Eighteen: Laughter in the Dark

Part V: The Nineties and After

Chapter Nineteen: Angels

Chapter Twenty: Rising Tide

Chapter Twenty-one: High Tide

Epilogue: Rewriting America

Acknowledgments

Selected Bibliography

About the Author

Also by Christopher Bram