Kinsey: Sex the Measure of All Things

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". . . a sympathetic insightful and highly readable story. . . . Gathorne-Hardy . . . shows us a very human and fallible but ultimately likable Kinsey impatient and irritable at times stubborn willful certainly a monomaniac about his research interests whether gall wasps or human sexuality." New York Times Book Review ". . . revises the revisionism and presents Kinsey in an altogether more favorable light . . . a humane and indefatigable sex educator as well as an unfairly maligned martyr of American priggishness. . . ." Salon Gathorne-Hardys literate major biography of Kinsey is the first to give a balanced portrait of one of this centurys pioneering researchers and social reformers. The author interviewed in depth surviving family members close colleagues friends and lovers. In this subtle often witty penetrating book he reveals not just a series of new revelations but whole new aspects of this complex difficult contradictory heroic obsessive and ultimately sympathetic man.