Shifting the story from San Francisco and New York to the more representative Chicago, Queer Clout weaves together activism and electoral politics in tracing the path of gays and lesbians from the closet to the corridors of power.

Despite their undeniable importance, the leaders of the Fascist and Nazi youth organizations have received little attention. This book uncovers the untold story of the training and education of these crucial protagonists of the Fascist and Nazi regimes, and examines the structures, ideologies, and rhetoric of youth organizations in Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany.

Liberty’s Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, sexuality, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system in the United States.