A Special Agent / Gay and Inside the FBI / "After 20 years as a top FBI agent, I was fired for being gay. This is my story. . . ." (SIGNED TWICE)

Buttino, Frank, with Lou Buttino

ISBN 10: 0688119581 / ISBN 13: 9780688119584

Published by William Morrow & Co., Inc., New York, 1993

About this Item

"First Edition" stated. Number line complete 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -- the first printing. Author Frank Buttino has dated 10-3-93 and signed to half-title page. Then, in the same hand (obviously), he has dated 1-7-95 and signed a second time, under a lengthy inscription, to the title page. There is a small rough spot to top outside corner of black FFE where something smaller than a standard bookplate has been removed. The FBI -- founded by J. Edgar Hoover, a lifelong bachelor who lived in an intimate relationship with his FBI protege, Clyde Tolson -- could hardly contend Buttino could be blackmailed for being gay after he openly announced he was gay, but they fired him anyway. (Bumbling Robert Mueller, lying James Comey, Andy McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lon Horiuchi and the burning babies of Waco, an outfit to be proud of even BEFORE they declared all supporters of rightful President Donald Trump to be "terrorists"!) Shortly after this book was published -- and the week after, um, . . . "never-married" Atty. Gen. Janet Reno ordered all branches of the Justice Department to cease discrimination based on sexual orientation -- the FBI settled Buttino's lawsuit and agreed to stop discriminating against applicants and employees on the basis of their sexual orientation or conduct. 351 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Special Agent / Gay and Inside the FBI / "After 20 years as a top FBI agent, I was fired for being gay. This is my story. . . ." (SIGNED TWICE)
• Publisher: William Morrow & Co., Inc., New York
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0688119581
• ISBN 13: 9780688119584
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Conspiracies
  • Gay Interest
  • The Freedom Bookshelf

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Synopsis

A former FBI agent describes how, once his homosexuality was revealed, he fought to regain the job he loved, taking his fight to the American public and to court. 65,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. Tour.