Crimson Letter Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of American Culture

In a book deeply impressive in its reach while also deeply embedded in its storied setting, bestselling historian Douglass Shand-Tucci explores the nature and expression of sexual identity at America's oldest university during the years of its greatest influence. Following the gay experience at Harvard in the nine-teenth and twentieth centuries, he focuses upon students, faculty, alumni, and hangers-on who struggled to find their place within the confines of Harvard Yard and in the society outside. The Crimson Letter combines the learned and the lurid, tragedy and farce, scandal and vindication, and figures of world renown as well as those whose influence extended little further than Harvard Square. Here is an engrossing account of a university trans-formed by those passing through its gates, and of their enduring impact upon American culture.Shand-Tucci, Douglass is the author of 'Crimson Letter Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of American Culture', published 2004 under ISBN 9780312330903 and ISBN 0312330901.