Perseus Academic: Cures by Martin Duberman

Martin Duberman occupies a singularly important place in American culture. Happily, he has now reissued his autobiography Cures. Duberman’s lifelong quest to understand history—our history and his—has always been unflinchingly honest, intellectually bold, and courageous. I am grateful to him for his life and work.
— Catharine R. Stimpson, Dean and University Professor, New York University

The list of books that Martin Duberman has given us is a long and illustrious one, and Cures certainly stands as one of the most compelling. It displays the skill of a graceful stylist, the insight of a smart historian, and the painful honesty of a man who survived the generation when living in the closet was the norm because the price of coming out was so high. Cures is one of the reasons why memoirs have such so much appeal—I couldn’t put it down.”
— John D'Emilio, author of The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture

”Martin Duberman is known for his unique combination of talents – as a distinguished historian, a talented writer, an impassioned advocate of the rights of gays and other beleaguered members of the human community. That his pioneering work remains alive and has influenced so many is itself a dramatic victory for human rights.”
— Howard Zinn

Praise for the first edition:
How he gradually came to embrace his sexual orientation as normal is the focus of this searingly candid, sometimes painful, affecting autobiography-one man's odyssey from self-sabotage to self acceptance… Including a frank account of his love affairs, this intense confessional is full of witty self-deflation as Duberman critiques his own stances on political, sexual and intellectual debates of the last three decades. He gives a witty and searingly candid account of how he came to accept his homosexuality despite the efforts of psychotherapists intent on 'curing' him of it.
— Publishers Weekly

A beautifully written account…This is a brave book, and one which deserves to be widely read.
— Dennis Altman, author of Aids in the Mind of America

…his testimony is both affecting and a gay liberation document of the first water.
— Booklist