Quote For The Day

“The best response to Forcing the Spring is to refuse to take the bait. To paraphrase Eleanor Roosevelt, Jo Becker cannot punk the LGBT world without their consent. The power of this book lies only in its ability to provoke. As history and journalism, Forcing the Spring would be a spectacular embarrassment,” – Tobias Wolff, in a review that calls Jo Becker “the Sacha Baron Cohen of journalism.”

The book’s Amazon responses are fascinating. It currently has 15 one-star reviews and eleven five-star reviews. A typical gay review:

I am flabbergasted by its complete annihilation of actual history.

A typical straight review:

A phenomenal book and easily the best historical nonfiction book I’ve read in 2014!

In those two quotes you begin to see the sheer audacity of this travesty … and its likely success.