Free GLBT Non-Fiction E-book from the University of Chicago Press

[ein_myria]

"The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government" by David K. Johnson (2004)
Details: Go to the University of Chicago Press Website

“David Johnson’s engrossing study of the persecution of gays and lesbians during the Cold War, complete with a comprehensive picture of the gay culture that flourished in Washington, is an important addition to a subject all too often ignored.”—Dallas Morning News

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Hi, this is my first post to this community. *wave* I just wanted to share this rare free non-fiction find. Apparently this is a free e-book for the month of June. It does require Adobe Digital Editions. (For ipad users such as myself, this means downloading the Bluefire reader app & signing up with an adobe ID. For PC users this means downloading some software.)

Update: Eek, apparently some of our community members are experiencing trouble with the PC ADE software (see comments for instructions). (DRM, you cause more trouble than you are worth. :/)

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[jumpuphigh]

Oh, cool. I flagged the email from them but didn't even look to see what the book was. Thanks!

[copracat]

Hi, just a note about the format. Users here may know a lot more about this than I do. Adobe Digital Editions just told me it owned a bunch of documents on my harddrive and was locking them from use on other computers. This list of documents included Cory Doctorow's Content (delicious irony!), books I have downloaded for free elsewhere without any DRM applied, such as from steampunkmagazine.com, some fan works and pdf files that the program could only identify as untitled and unknown author at which point I realised Adobe Digital Editions probably didn't know what it was doing.

I am slightly confused!

But thanks heaps for the link to this book.

[brewsternorth]

...why in the world did UCP go for this ornate Adobe Digital Editions whojimmy as opposed to just making the thing available as a (watermarked) PDF? I am disappoint. Particularly as that title sounds Relevant to my Interests (have a fiction on the back-burner which relates to LGBT communities and Cold War paranoia).