The Red Scare and the Lavender Scare

"I'm so, so, so happy that he got what he deserved," she says of McCarthy. "He died not able to pretend that he wasn't what he was and unable to separate himself from the people that he had attacked and harmed his entire life" The author is fascinated by how U.S. leaders have let issues like AIDS rage out of control without dealing with them until they hit a young white man.