Coming Out Conservative: an autobiography

Liebman, Marvin

ISBN 10: 0811800733 / ISBN 13: 9780811800730

Published by Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1992

About this Item

272p. + 16p. photos, very good first edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. The anti-communist, conservative activist was at one time a very youthful member of the Young Communist League (joining was "probably one of the great moments of my young life; to me, it was like an honorary secret society limited to the very best."), a member of Bernard Malamud's first highschool teaching assignment class ("He encouraged me to write") and semi-protegee, and later a founder of Young Americans for Freedom. A weirdly welcoming anti-communist.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Coming Out Conservative: an autobiography
• Publisher: Chronicle Books, San Francisco
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811800733
• ISBN 13: 9780811800730
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography
  • Gay Studies
  • Right-wing
  • 1990S
  • Autobiography, Memoir

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Synopsis

Determined to do what he could to stop the rising tide of bigotry perpetuated by the right wing and frustrated by not being able to acknowledge his sexual preference, Marvin Liebman - a major strategist and fund-raiser for the conservative movement - decided in 1990 to reveal his homosexuality.
With the demise of communism and the breakup of the Soviet Union - the "enemy" that has long held the conservative movement together - Liebman fears that the American Right has begun a frenzied search for a new villain. He warns that gays and lesbians may be the next targets of hate, just as blacks, Jews, and foreigners have been victimized in the past.
Writing with exceptional charm, candor, and insight, Liebman opens up both the "back rooms" of American politics and his personal life. He has been a political insider who has worked closely with William F. Buckley, Jr., and his National Review, and with conservative politicians from Barry Goldwater to Ronald Reagan; an activist who struggled for the radical Irgun to free Palestine; a religious convert from Judaism to Catholicism; a producer of theater and films in London; and now, after many years of hiding, an outspoken gay man.
Whether creating influential organizations like Young Americans for Freedom and the Committee of One Million, staging political rallies and Presidential conventions, or raising and quietly channeling funds to friendly groups worldwide, the author has been instrumental in shaping the conservative movement.
Coming Out Conservative is more than one person's account of being gay and being conservative; it is about individual freedom and the future of American politics.