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A review by mesy_mark
Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington, from FDR through Clinton by James Kirchick
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.0
Boy is this a long volume. Covering mainly male homosexuality with the flare of bisexuality as occasion, the 20th century of USA presidents is looked through the queer eye. From president to president, we get exhaustingly detailed aspects of the administration and the climate of gays in America. This 26-hour audiobook is quite a lot to get through and did have me lulled with some boredom at points but I think that is more how political readings tend to bore me more so than the queer content. In the audiobook edition of this book, the narrator's masculine voice has an even and pleasant flow reading over the text. Overall, it was a good deep dive into the gay Washington for me though political reads can only have my interest to a point.