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1 online resource (xvii, 219 pages) |
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Cover; Original Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1: Childhood in Sundown Town; Chapter 2: A Star Is Born; Chapter 3: Higher Education; Chapter 4: Iowa Boy in the Windy City; Chapter 5: "New York Is Where I'd Rather Stay"; Chapter 6: Moving Up in the World: Cape Cod; Chapter 7: Rubbing Elbows with the Rich and Famous; Chapter 8: The Model Student; Chapter 9: My Son, the Banker; Chapter 10: The Not-So-Innocents Abroad; Chapter 11: Nikos; Chapter 12: The Big A; Epilogue |
| Summary |
This is the first autobiography to be published by The Haworth Press. This is the first autobiography to be published by Harrington Park Press. The place is New York City. The time is the decade before the plague of AIDS. Thousands of gay men were living a free-wheeling lifestyle of club hopping, "score" hunting, sex without fear, and upward mobility. To none did The Big Apple offer greater rewards than to those young men who had the envied "male model" look. Author James Melson belonged to this exclusive clique: he was tall, blond, muscular, and very "straight looki |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Melson, James, 1957-1992 -- Health
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| SUBJECT |
Melson, James, 1957-1992 fast |
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AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- United States -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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AIDS (Disease) -- Patients
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Health
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Homoseksuelen.
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AIDS.
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United States
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317765165 |
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1317765168 |
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9781317765172 |
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1317765176 |
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