David Mixner, whomNewsweekonce called ""the most powerful gay man in America,"" has been an activist and a political strategist for decades. He is the author of the highly praised memoirStranger Among Friends, as well as Brave Journeys- Profiles in Gay and Lesbian Courage and At Home with Myself- Stories from the Hills of Turkey Hollow.
Movingly personal...intriguing and timely...only sometimes does a notable life yield a worthy memoir, and this is such an instance....Stranger Among Friends is an optimist's book, the achievement of a doer. --Los Angeles Times Rarely have one man's personal journey and a nation's political odyssey blended as powerfully....Simply one of the best political autobiographies of the year. --Book-of-the-Month Club Views Impassioned....Poignantly told...[a] bittersweet political odyssey. --Frank Rich, Op-Ed Page, The New York Times An intelligent and challenging biography of contemporary America...an epic that is partly David Mixner and partly his times, and future historians will be hard pressed to understand us without reading him. --The New York Times Book Review