
Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America
Donald Katz
Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America
Donald Katz
Social history of the Gordon family. Daughter Susan (names unchanged) is a pioneer feminist, son Ricky an openly gay song writer. Revealing portrait of America from 1945 til just after 1990.
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- 1992
- ISBN-13
- 9780060190095
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Postwar American family lifeFeminism and social changeLGBTQ identity
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1992)
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