Where:
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02130
Admission:
$10
Event website:
https://www.masshist.org/calendar
Join us as author Peter Shinkle presents his new book "Ike’s Mystery Man: The Secret Lives of Robert Cutler."
This Cold War narrative brings a new dimension to our understanding of the inner-workings of the Eisenhower White House. It also 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”, i.e. homosexuality, 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.
There will be a pre-talk reception at 5:30.