Drawing on oral histories and archival records, Carroll traces the partnership between the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power and Women’s Health Action Mobilization, showing how gay men and feminists collaborated to improve health care and to oppose homophobia and misogyny during the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s.

How, and why, did the Anglo-American world become so obsessed with the private lives and public character of its political leaders? Marilyn Morris finds answers in eighteenth-century Britain, when a long tradition of court intrigue and gossip spread into a much broader and more public political arena with the growth of political parties, extra-parliamentary political activities, and a partisan print culture.

“An exceptionally satisfying intellectual project, Age in America reveals the fundamental ways of understanding what age means, why it is important, and how this category has changed over time. This excellent and innovative collection will push scholars forward in their thinking of how age can be used as an analytic category better to understand important features of United States history.” — Paula S. Fass