Playbook has excerpts from James Kirchick’s new book, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington which details how far Ronald Reagan distanced himself from AIDS, even as thousands of Americans were dying.
Kirchick writes about a draft of Reagan’s statement after actor Rock Hudson died of AIDS in 1985: “In his public statement about the most famous figure in the world to die from AIDS, the president purged all references to the nature of their decades-long friendship, turning an expression of personal grief into one of anodyne regret.”
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Kirchick, James (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 830 Pages - 05/31/2022 (Publication Date) - Henry Holt and Co. (Publisher)