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"Not since Robert Caro's Years of Lyndon Johnson have I been so riveted by a work of history. Secret City is not gay history. It is American history."
—George Stephanopoulos
Washington, D.C., has always been a city of secrets. Few have been more dramatic than the ones revealed in James Kirchick's Secret City.
For decades, the specter of homosexuality haunted Washington. The mere
suggestion that a person might be gay destroyed reputations, ended
careers, and ruined lives. At the height of the Cold War, fear of
homosexuality became intertwined with the growing threat of
international communism, leading to a purge of gay men and lesbians from
the federal government. In the fevered atmosphere of political
Washington, the secret "too loathsome to mention" held enormous,
terrifying power. Utilizing thousands of pages of declassified
documents, interviews with over one hundred people, and material
unearthed from presidential libraries and archives around the country, Secret City
is a chronicle of American politics like no other. Beginning with the
tragic story of Sumner Welles, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's brilliant
diplomatic advisor and the man at the center of "the greatest national
scandal since the existence of the United States," James Kirchick
illuminates how homosexuality shaped each successive presidential
administration through the end of the twentieth century. Cultural and
political anxiety over gay people sparked a decades-long witch hunt,
impacting everything from the rivalry between the CIA and the FBI to the
ascent of Joseph McCarthy, the struggle for Black civil rights, and the
rise of the conservative movement. Among other revelations, Kirchick
tells of the World War II–era gay spymaster who pioneered seduction as a
tool of American espionage, the devoted aide whom Lyndon Johnson
treated as a son yet abandoned once his homosexuality was discovered,
and ho