#robert w. fieseler

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“In his impressive, meticulously reported debut as a nonfiction author, Robert Fieseler vividly re-creates the world that produced a galvanizing tragedy, a fire at a New Orleans bar in the summer of 1973 that took thirty-two lives. In reminding us of the furtiveness of gay life even in a tolerant city, and of the official culture’s hostility to it, Tinderbox is riveting and unforgettable.” - Nicholas Lemann, author of The Promised Land An essential work of American civil rights history, Tinderbox mesmerizingly reconstructs the 1973 fire that devastated New Orleans’ subterranean gay community.

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Reviewed: "American Scare" by Robert W. Fieseler

At the end of Robert Fieseler’s stunning history of the Johns Committee in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he writes of the idea that “what was old is new again.” And that line perfectly encapsulates the parallels between the ideological ‘wars’ of that era, which followed closely on the heels of the McCarthy Era, and the ideological ‘wars’ currently being waged today in America. It’s depressing…

Reviewed: "American Scare" by Robert W. Fieseler