J. David Johnson Books

"In The Lavender Scare, historian David K. Johnson relates the frightening story of how, during the Cold War, homosexuals were considered as dangerous a threat to national security as Communists. Charges that the Roosevelt and Truman administrations were havens for homosexuals proved a potent political weapon, sparking a "Lavender Scare" more vehement and long-lasting than McCarthy's Red Scare. Relying on newly declassified documents, years of research in the records of the National Archives and the FBI, and interviews with former civil servants, Johnson's 2004 book recreated the vibrant gay subculture that flourished in New Deal-era Washington and took us inside the security interrogation rooms where thousands of Americans were questioned about their sex lives. The homosexual purges ended promising careers, ruined lives, and pushed many to suicide. But, as Johnson also showed, the purges brought victims together to protest their treatment, helping launch a new civil rights struggle. Much has changed regarding LGBT rights and our understanding of LGBT history since the original publication, and this enlarged edition features a new epilogue by the author that brings the story into the twenty-first century"--

This day-by-day account of Abraham Lincoln's last six weeks of life covers a period of extraordinary events, not only for the president himself but for the fate of the nation. číst celé

David K. Johnson tells the story of the physique magazine produced by and for gay men to show how gay commerce was not a byproduct of the gay-rights movement but an important catalyst for it. He offers a vivid look into the lives of physique entrepreneurs and their customers, presenting a wealth of illustrations.

"Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Adolf Hitler's chief of military intelligence, accomplished something that neither President Franklin D. Roosevelt nor Prime Minister Winston Churchill could ever achieve - he saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish refugees and other racial and political undesirables by rescuing them from Nazi Germany and other Nazi-occupied countries. Admiral Canaris is a page-turning story of one of the most important and least likely saboteurs within the Third Reich"--

Highly illustrated throughout, this is the story of brickmaking in the UK told by an expert in the field.

This beautiful new edition explores Ingleborough and its immediate surroundings, to create the biography of a mountain. The author - a long-time Ingleborough enthusiast and scholar - describes how people and landscape have interacted over the centuries in an accessible, readable manner which will appeal to visitors and local people alike.

He Is a Champion follows the life of a young boy, at first only accustomed to working hard on the family farm. His life changes drastically when he is sent to a new school in the city. There, a new life unfolds as he discovers new friends, women, and, perhaps more importantly, sports. As he slowly begins to climb the ranks and become one of Australias greatest athletes and businessmen, his family holds center stage in his life when his parents are killed, and he is not included in the will. He traces a mysterious, lost secret and a hidden past. All alone and confronted with the unknown, he is led on a new

A thorough and highly-accessible history of San Antonio's economic and political development

"Assembles for the first time the many different texts imagining the future after the end of apartheid. Explores the history of how the future in South Africa after the end of apartheid was imagined. Provides the first literary-cultural history of South African speculative fiction. Studies the literary-political cultures of the five major traditions of South African anti-colonial/ anti-segregationist/ anti-apartheid thought. Focusing on well-known and obscure literary texts from the 1880s to the 1970s, as well as the many manifestos and programmes setting out visions of the future, this book charts the dreams of freedom of five major traditions of anti-colonial and anti-apartheid resistance: the African National Congress, the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union, the Communist Party of South Africa, the Non-European Unity Movement and the Pan-Africanist Congress. More than an exercise in historical excavation, Dreaming of Freedom in South Africa raises challenging questions for the post-apartheid present." --Publisher

Dr David Johnson explores the fascinating story behind this important and oft- forgotten part of Britain's landscape.