James H. Jones
Alfred C. Kinsey
A Life
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 his every waking hour to the destruction of sexual repression. 31 b/w photographs.
"A fascinating account of a fantastic American. . . . [Jones] is a historian with a knack for writing books about the past that are bound to be discussed in the present."—The New Republic
"A masterly, disturbing biography."—Washington Post Book World
James H. Jones is the award-winning author of Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. An independent scholar, he lives in San Francisco, California.
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