Neil Miller, Author . Alyson $14.95 (313p) ISBN 978-1-55583-659-7
It started in 1955 with a missing eight-year-old boy, Jimmy Bremmers, later found murdered, and the arrest and conviction of Ernest Triplett, a simpleminded Sioux City, Iowa, salesman, for the crime. But within months public hysteria caused the...
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Banned in Boston: The Watch and Ward Society's Crusade Against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil
Neil Miller, Beacon, $26.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8070-5112-2
Tufts journalism professor Miller's (Sex-Crime Panic) examination of Boston's Watch and Ward society, a small but well-funded group of moral do-gooders that reigned for over 80 years, serves as a reminder to not take one's entertainment for granted.
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Bradford Morrow, Author, Neil Miller, Author Random House (NY) $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-40241-1
Miller ( In Search of Gay America ) traveled for two and a half years through 12 countries, observing gay and lesbian life. This crisply written report underscores sharp cultural differences as it moves from Denmark, where homosexual partnerships...
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Neil Miller, Author Vintage Books USA $16 (657p) ISBN 978-0-679-74988-2
Bachelor lawyer Abraham Lincoln shared a bed with Illinois storekeeper Joshua Speed for three years starting in 1839. Because of its portrayal of a lesbian ``Boston marriage,'' Henry James's The Bostonians was omitted from the 26-volume Scribner...
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Neil Miller, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $18.95 (309p) ISBN 978-0-87113-304-5
This informative, surprisingly entertaining overview of gay life in the U.S. puts to rest the stereotype that homosexual communities thrive only in large cities. In coast-to-coast travels, Miller, former editor of Boston's Gay Community News , met...
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