Books by Charles Kaiser and Complete Book Reviews
Charles Kaiser, Author George Weidenfeld & Nicholson $0 (306p) ISBN 978-1-55584-242-0
Kaiser has no ideological ax to grind, which is refreshing, but in beckoning us to re-experience the idealism, chaos and exuberance of the 1960sand of 1968 in particularhe keeps tripping over his overheated prose. He was a Columbia freshman in 1968...
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Charles Kaiser, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $27 (404p) ISBN 978-0-395-65781-2
Former New York Times reporter and Newsweek editor Kaiser's book on the evolution of the American gay community is a monumental work. Like George Chauncey's Gay New York and many other products of the current popularity of gay studies and gay...
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Charles Kaiser. Other Press, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-59051-614-0
Kaiser (1968 in America), a former New York Times reporter, draws on historical documents, interviews, and private letters in this vivid family portrait that examines four siblings’ heroic contribution to the French resistance of WWII. Prior to the...
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