A review by hawkelf
Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals by William Wright

dark informative slow-paced

1.75

I wish there was another book available about this event, written by somebody else. Like other reviewers, I can't tell if the author is straight or old school, and it shouldn't matter, but the attempt(?) to stay neutral about what happened didn't really work, and often leaned toward sounding like he agreed with Harvard instead of the targeted students. There was a lot of padding in this book, that made it feel like it wasn't going anywhere for chapters at a time. Including the tidbit that the then president of Harvard's sister was fat, outside of quotation, was a tonal Choice, I gotta say, that is unfortunately consistent with how he talks about the targeted students as well. 

I don't actually remember if I technically finished, or gave up. I did go and read the articles available online about the secret court, and those felt more informative.