Bücher von John S. Haller

Patrician looking but not patrician born, Musmanno was a self-made man memorable in his appearance and congenial to the times until his intentions and aspirations ran afoul of the circumstances. From his journals we see a man of extreme contradictions who sometimes exercised troubling and even controlling relationships over people and events.

"A highly readable, thoughtful, and detailed study .... No one has yet set the story of Victorian sexuality so firmly in the context of medical history." -Journal of American History