Larry Kramer

Larry Kramer's American History

The Leonard Lopate Show | Apr 8, 2015

Award-winning playwright, author, and celebrated gay-rights advocate Larry Kramer discusses the first installment of his multi-part novel: The American People, Volume 1: Search for My Heart. Early English settlers face homophobia, George Washington and Alexander Hamilton revel in unexpected intimacies, and John Wilkes Booth's motives for assassinating Abraham Lincoln are thoroughly revised.

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