Alfred C. Kinsey: A Life (2004)

The definitive biography of Alfred C. Kinsey—the man who inspired the major new motion picture starring Liam Neeson. More than twenty-five years in the making, this groundbreaking biography caused great controversy when it was first published. Drawing on tens of thousands of letters gleaned from more than a dozen archives and scores of personal interviews (ranging from members of sexual subcultures who demanded anonymity to congressmen, university presidents, prize-winning scientists, and heads of foundations), James H. Jones shows that the image of disinterested biologist cultivated by Kinsey was in fact a carefully crafted public persona. The Alfred C. Kinsey who emerges in these pages was a social reformer and a zealot, who devoted ... full descriptionhis every waking hour to the destruction of sexual repression. 31 b/w photographs. (less description)

Author: James H. Jones

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