Ike's Mystery Man by Peter Shinkle

Ike's Mystery Man by Peter Shinkle

Ike's Mystery Man shines a bright light on the indispensable contributions and sacrifices made by patriotic gay Americans in an era when Executive Order 10450 banned anyone suspected of 'sexual perversion' from any government job, and gays in the government were persecuted by the likes of Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn in the Senate, and J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson at the FBI. It also shows that Eisenhower's National Security Advisor Robert 'Bobby' Cutler shaped US Cold War strategy in far more consequential ways than has been previously understood.

Peter Shinkle worked for 19 years as a reporter at various news organizations, including most recently the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He covered the federal court system, and also wrote investigative stories on subjects ranging from improper disposal of radioactive waste to contamination spread by a lead mining company. Shinkle is the great-nephew of Robert Cutler. It was during a family vacation in 2006 that his mother, Judith Cutler Shinkle, and his aunt told him that their Uncle Bobby was gay. That sparked a 12-year endeavor to explore the story of the man who was one of President Eisenhower's closest advisors.

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ISBN 13	9781586422431
ISBN 10	158642243X
Title	Ike's Mystery Man
Author	Peter Shinkle
Series	Truth To Power Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Steerforth Press
Year published	2018-12-04
Number of pages	428
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