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Charles Kaiser

Charles Kaiser

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Charles Kaiser is a former reporter for the New York Times and Wall Street Journal and a former press critic for Newsweek. He is the author of 1968 in America, one of the most admired popular histories of the music, politics, and culture of the 1960s, now used as a textbook in colleges across the United States, and The Gay Metropolis, the landmark history of gay life in America, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Lambda Literary Award winner. His articles and reviews have also appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, New York, Vogue, Vanity Fair, The Guardian (UK), and New Republic, among many other publications.

Books by Charles Kaiser

The Cost of Courage

THE COST OF COURAGE tells the incredible true story of one Catholic bourgeois family's life during the Nazi occupation of Paris during World War II, told by an American author who has known the family for five decades. This true story is more suspenseful than anything Alan Furst himself could have come up with.

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