

Reaching Ninety
Author: Martin Duberman
Narrator: Donald Corren
Unabridged: 12 hr 56 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 03/07/2023
Author: Martin Duberman
Narrator: Donald Corren
Unabridged: 12 hr 56 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 03/07/2023
Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, CUNY, Martin Duberman is the author of some two dozen books, including Stonewall, Cures, Paul Robeson, Haymarket, and Jews Queers Germans. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Bancroft Prize, the Vernon Rice/Drama Desk Award, three Lambda Literary Awards, a special award from the National Academy of Arts and Letters for his contributions to literature, the 2007 lifetime achievement award from the American Historical Association, and the Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. He has been a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and has received honorary degrees from Amherst College and Columbia University. He lives in New York City.
Donald Corren is a stage, television, and voice actor whose work has been featured on and off Broadway, in regional theaters, and behind animated characters. He was trained in the theater division of the Juilliard School.
Listened to audiobook. Engaging account of Duberman's life and career as a historian, academic, prose writer, playwright, and supporter of Gay (and other) rights and culture. Shares his sharp intelligence, playful wit, consistent passions and values, and occasional good-humored self-ridicule.......more
“Narrator Donald Corren does full justice to this memoir with an avuncular tone and energetic pacing…A delightful visit with a kind man.” AudioFile
“An energetic, fun, and kvetchy take-no-prisoners memoir…A fascinating and rollicking read.” Sarah Schulman, author of Let the Record Show
“Theater, psychotherapy, college classrooms, gay studies, the late 1960s: there is something here for everyone curious about our recent past.” Robert Hampel, author of Radical Teaching in Turbulent Times
“Brings us to the present state of US and queer politics…The wisdom of Reaching Ninety illuminates our world today.” Michael Bronski, author of A Queer History of the United States
“A wonderful account of the life of a public intellectual whose devotion to some of the most important issues of his time has been nothing less than admirable.” Vivian Gornick, author of Fierce Attachments
“A bold, exemplary life, told with unflinching honesty and psychological insight.” John Howard, author of Truths Up His Sleeve