Sin, Sex & Subversion: How What Was Taboo in 1950s New York Became America’s New Normal (Carrel Books, February 2016) — was nominated for the 2017 Bonnie and Vern Bullough Book Award by the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (FSSS).

He who transgresses not only breaks a rule.
He goes somewhere that the others are not;
and he knows something the others don’t know.

Susan Sontag

“New York is not a state capital or a national capital,” E. B. White famously wrote in 1949, “but it is by way of becoming the capital of the world.” In the ‘50s, as London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow and Tokyo recovered from a devastating war, the Big Apple became the capital of the 20^th century.

And the city was jumping! The drinking age was 18 years and bars stayed open ‘til 4 am. Celebrated nightspots like the Stork Club, El Morocco and the St. Regis Roof welcomed the big-spenders, while the Village Vanguard, Birdland and Jimmy Ryan’s hosted everyone else. Beat poets, jazz musicians and folksingers were remaking the Village. Alan Freed joined Murray Kaufman, Murray the K’s “Swingin’ Soiree,” and Douglas Henderson, of the “Jocko, The Ace from Outer Space” show to introduce rock-&-roll to radio listeners.   Read more on the Books page.

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“Not just about pleasure, but also a pleasure to read, David Rosen’s Sin, Sex & Subversion is voluptuously researched, vigorously written, and vigilantly insistent that the social battles of the Cold War …

 Whitney Strub
Rutgers University

“David Rosen is the heir apparent to The Wizard of Oz, pulling back the curtain exposing America’s political and sexual hypocrisy.  Sin, Sex & Subversion reveals how private sexual behavior has been woven into political and social posturing.”

David Rothenberg
host, “Any Saturday,” WBAI (New York)

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David Rosen is a marketing and business development consultant with thirty-plus years experience.  He served on the management teams taking two media-tech companies public and has worked with many corporation and non-profit organizations, start-up ventures and independent media makers.

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