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Original Title:	The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
ISBN:	0312019009 (ISBN13: 9780312019006)
Edition Language:	English

The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk

Randy Shilts

Paperback | Pages: 380 pages

Rating: 4.29 | 2872 Users | 197 Reviews

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Title	:	The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
Author	:	Randy Shilts
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 380 pages
Published	:	March 15th 1988 by St. Martin's Griffin (first published 1982)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Biography. History. LGBT. GLBT. Queer. Politics

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The Mayor of Castro Street is Shilts's acclaimed story of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community in America during the 1970s. His is a story of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassination in City Hall and massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice and the consolidation of gay power and gay hope.

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This is a great story about a tremendous personality, but unfortunately, not a very good book.Harvey Milk is a legend, and the best thing that the author did here was to bring his personality to life in these pages. As the book went on, I liked him more and more, I was in his corner, I wanted him to succeed and I was deeply sad at his end, though I knew it was coming. Unfortunately, however, his charisma wasn't enough to hold my attention through the book. And the focus on his life faltered and

The thing I found so awesome about this book (already being familiar with Milk's life) was its author. Randy Shilts himself was gay and lived and worked in San Francisco shortly after the events of this book happened. There is a certain authenticity, then, to this book that would be lacking were the author instead heterosexual, or lived in a different city or time. The way he describes San Francisco, you almost feel as though you are there while everything was going on. The way he describes the

Beside the lines "You gotta give 'em hope" in my copy of this book I wrote a small note that said, "I love you Harvey." In reality I'm almost positive I would have a far more nuanced opinions or Harvey Milk, but reading about the man gives me hope and so I love him for it.I credit whatever pre-"coming out" self-awareness with the movie Milk which brought my attention to Harvey Milk in the first place. Watching that film I fell for the teenager Paul who's in a wheel chair and crying over the

When in San Francisco one reads about its slain royalty.

I love Harvey Milk. I really do. But after reading this book, I think I like him a little less. I love that Randy Shilts can write about my hero, flaws and all, and still leave me humbled. Humbled that even the people we idolize are actually, like all of us, flawed human beings.

I would give this book 3.5 stars if I could.It's not that I didn't like it. In fact, I raved about it, for a while. But the middle became very long, tedious, and rife with domestic political struggles. (I suppose, as an international relations major, I'm already predisposed to being uninterested in the local political arena.)I much preferred the beginning third of the book, and then the last 50 pages or so. It's made me curious to see what has occurred in San Francisco since Harvey Milk's

4.5This book... I have no words.The only reason I don't rate it five stars is because it's quite wordy every now and then and therefore kind of dragging. Apart from that this book is absolutely marvelous.