Title: The price of achievement
First published: 1995
Description: John F. Kennedy predicted that Scotty Thompson would be President some day. Before he was 30 he had won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, published several books, begun a promising academic and public career, and married the handsome and wealthy daughter of an elder statesman. At 40, from a tenured university professorship he got his first sub-cabinet job in Washington. Between the cup and the lip of fulfillment his world of power and riches fell apart: he could no longer hold back his gay secret. So he came out, joining what is still the most despised minority. Against the most formidable odds - powerful people opposing him to protect their own deeply guarded similar secret, defeating him for position on grounds of his homosexuality - he put his life back together: with his children, with his lovers, and finally as the first openly gay presidential appointee.
Subjects: Homosexuality, Gay politicians, Closeted gays, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Biography, Coming out (sexual identity), Reagan, ronald, 1911-2004, United states, politics and government, 1981-1989
Places: United States
People: W. Scott Thompson (1942-)
LC classification: E840.8.T48 A3 1995