{"product_id":"an-archive-of-hope-9780520275492","title":"An Archive of Hope","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author was one of the first openly and politically gay public officials in the United States, and his remarkable activism put him at the very heart of a pivotal civil rights movement reshaping America in the 1970s. This title brings together a substantial collection of his speeches, editorials, political campaign materials, and press releases.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These selections capture the voice of this coalition builder who worked to forge connections between unions and gay people and poorer and other people in the Castro district... Recommended.\" -- A. B. Johnson Choice \"A useful record of the beliefs of an important figure and the battles of the 1970s.\" -- Daniel Cohen The Times Literary Supplement \"An important contribution to the corpus of work on Harvey Milk as a writer and an orator.\" -- James Patterson The Gay \u0026amp; Lesbian Review Worldwide \"The collected speeches assembled in this excellent book show Milk as obsessive, determined and resourceful.\" -- Michael Kirby Law Society Journal \"A substantial contribution to GLBTQ history and to the larger history of the struggle against oppression.\" -- Maegan Parker Brooks QED \"An Archive of Hope is a remarkable contribution to GLBTQ history and the ways in which that history might shape our presents and futures.\" Rhetoric \u0026amp; Public Affairs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  Foreword: \"Harvey\" Frank M. Robinson  Introduction: Harvey Milk's Political Archive \u0026amp; Archival Politics  Chapter One:     Milk and the Culture of Populism  1.  \"Interview with Harvey Milk,\" interview, Kalendar, 17 August 1973  2.   \"Address to the San Francisco Chapter of the National Women's Political Caucus,\" speech, 5 September 1973  3.   \"Address to the Joint International Longshoremen \u0026amp; Warehousemen's Union of San Francisco and to the Lafayette Club,\" speech, 30 September 1973  4.   \"An Open Letter to the Mayor of San Francisco,\" public letter, 22 September 1973  5.   \"MUNI\/Parking Garage,\" press release, 27 September 1973  6.  \"Alfred Seniora,\" press release, 28 September 1973  7.   \"Who Really Represents You,\" campaign flyer, September 1973  8.   \"Milk Note,\" column, Vector 1 February 1974  9.   \"Anyone Can Be a Movie Critic: How Not to Find Leadership,\" editorial, San Francisco Crusader, February 1974  10.   \"Letter to the City of San Francisco Hall of Justice on Police Brutality,\" public letter, 14 February 1974  11.   \"Where I Stand,\" article draft, Sentinel, 28 March 1974  12.  \"Where There is No Victim, There is No Crime,\" press release, 1 April 1974  13.   \"Political Power,\" article draft, Sentinel, 23 May 1974  14.   \"Letter to the San Francisco Chronicle about Anti-Gay Editorials,\" letter draft, 1 July 1974  15.   \"Library or Performing Arts Center,\" press release, 4 December 1974   Chapter Two:     The Grassroots Activist Becomes \"The Mayor of Castro Street\"  16.   \"Au Contraire ... PCR Needed,\" column, Bay Area Reporter, 9 February 1975  17.   \"Harvey Milk for Supervisor,\" campaign letter, 26 February 1975  18.   \"Statement of Harvey Milk, Candidate for the 16th Assembly District,\" campaign material, 9 March 1976  19.   \"Reactionary Beer,\" column, Bay Area Reporter, 18 March 1976  20.   \"Nixon's Revenge -- The Republicans and Their Supreme Court,\" column, Bay Area  Reporter, 15 April 1976  21.  \"My Concept as a Legislator,\" column, Bay Area Reporter, 27 May 1976  22.  \"Uncertainty of Carter or the Certainty of Ford,\" column, Bay  Area Reporter, 2 September 1976  23.  \"A Nation Finally Talks About ... It,\" column, Bay Area Reporter, 9 June 1977  24.  \"Gay Economic Power,\" column, Bay Area Reporter, 15 September 1977  25.   \"You've Got to Have Hope,\" speech, 24 June 1977   Chapter Three:     Supervisor Milk Speaks  26.  \"Harvey Speaks Out,\" interview, Bay Area Reporter, 8 December 1977  27.   \"A City of Neighborhoods: First Major Address I and II,\" reprinted speech, Bay Area Reporter, 10 January 1978 and 2 February 1978  28.   \"The Word is Out,\" public letter, 1 February 1978  29.   \"Letter to 'Abe' on Domestic Politics,\" private letter, 7 February 1978  30.   \"Letter to Council Members re Judging People by Myths,\" public letter, 13 March 1978  31.   \"Resolution Requiring State Department to Close the South African Consulate\" and \"Closing the Consulate,\" press releases, 22 March 1978  32.   \"Letter to President Jimmy Carter,\" private letter, 12 April 1978  33.  \"Untitled (on Gay Caucus and Gay Power),\" column, Bay Area Reporter,\" 27 April  1978  34.  \"California Gay Caucus,\" article draft, Alternate, 12 May 1978   Chapter Four:     Milk and the Politics of Gay Rights  35.   \"Keynote Speech at Gay Conference 5,\" tape cassette transcription of speech, 10 June 1978  36.  \"Gay Rights,\" article draft, Coast to Coast, 16 June 1978  37.  \"Gay Freedom Day Speech,\" reprinted speech, Bay Area Reporter, 25 June 1978  38.  \"To Beat Briggs,\" column, Bay Area Reporter, 3 August 1978  39.   \"I Have High Hopes Address,\" stump speech, 1978  40.  \"Harvey Milk vs. John Briggs,\" televised debate transcription, 6 August 1978  41.  \"The Positive or the Negative,\" column, Bay Area Reporter, 31 August 1978  42.   \"Statement on Briggs\/Bigotry,\" public letter, 22 September 1978  43.   \"Overall Needs of the City,\" speech, 25 September 1978  44.   \"Ballot Argument Against Proposition 6,\" public letter (with Frank Robinson), 7 November 1978   Chapter Five:     Harvey's Last Words  45.   \"Political Will,\" tape cassette transcription, 18 November 1977   Document List  Editor Biographies","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864885309783,"sku":"9780520275492","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/an-archive-of-hope-9780520275492","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}