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Stranger Among Friends
"From my fear of coming out to coming on strong in the struggle for human rights, this is my American journey, the story of an outsider on the inside, a gay man proudly committed to a life of standing up for freedom.
"President Clinton and I were born three days apart. We had both dreamed of serving our country. There was one He could pursue his dream, while I felt I could not. The President was born straight and I was born gay."
In this stirring personal history, one of America's most influential gay rights advocates recounts his extraordinary career as a policy maker and adviser to the major political leaders of our time, and his own often anguishing, ultimately triumphant life as a gay man. A longtime personal friend of Bill Clinton, in Stranger Among Friends David Mixner offers an insider's look at the power struggles that occur every day in our nation's capital and candid insights on the Clinton administration's successes and failures. Spanning three decades of human rights activism--from the behind-the-scenes negotiations to the painful betrayals to the hard-won victories--his forthright story unflinchingly explores what it means to be an outsider on the inside, and sends a message of hope to all who have ever stood up for what they believe.
"President Clinton and I were born three days apart. We had both dreamed of serving our country. There was one He could pursue his dream, while I felt I could not. The President was born straight and I was born gay."
In this stirring personal history, one of America's most influential gay rights advocates recounts his extraordinary career as a policy maker and adviser to the major political leaders of our time, and his own often anguishing, ultimately triumphant life as a gay man. A longtime personal friend of Bill Clinton, in Stranger Among Friends David Mixner offers an insider's look at the power struggles that occur every day in our nation's capital and candid insights on the Clinton administration's successes and failures. Spanning three decades of human rights activism--from the behind-the-scenes negotiations to the painful betrayals to the hard-won victories--his forthright story unflinchingly explores what it means to be an outsider on the inside, and sends a message of hope to all who have ever stood up for what they believe.
384 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 1996
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December 6, 2015
Decent memoir. Might consider it better if I'd been reading it as a memoir of a person I wanted to read about, rather than someone who was involved in a component of my research but that I'd never heard of before.
March 15, 2010
An interesting memoir about a GLBT activist and advocate through both his personal and the movement's struggles and successes.
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