{"product_id":"outed","title":"Outed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe story of the scandal in the LBJ administration that first brought queer life into the national political conversation in the 1960s.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson’s longest-serving and most trusted advisor, Walter Jenkins, was arrested for soliciting sex in a YMCA bathroom near the White House. The scandal blasted across the front pages of major US newspapers, was dissected and analyzed by the FBI, and became a watershed in making straight America aware of queer life. In \u003ci\u003eOuted\u003c\/i\u003e, historian Timothy Stewart-Winter reveals that the effects of antigay policing were felt not only by the men but by their colleagues, families, and, in this case, the First Family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalter Jenkins’s political banishment had long-ranging effects, from how Johnson conducted the remainder of his presidency to how media coverage of political and sexual scandals became more explicit and salacious. Stewart-Winter reveals Jenkins’s influence and legacy, encompassing but also looking beyond the scandal. Jenkins had a significant impact on Johnson’s career and how it is remembered, including both his signal accomplishment—the programs and laws that constituted the Great Society—and his signal failure: his catastrophic judgment, after Jenkins’s exile, regarding the Vietnam War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on Jenkins’s previously unexamined personal papers, including hundreds of letters he received in the aftermath from ordinary Americans and government officials alike, Stewart-Winter shows how antigay policies and the revelations around them continue to reverberate today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57427497451864,"sku":"9780226841021","price":32.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/outed","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}