I never promised you a rose garden
Type
Label
I never promised you a rose garden
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Intended audience
Rated T
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
I never promised you a rose garden
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Summary
Mannie Murphy is a gender queer Portland native. This work of graphic nonfiction, told in the style of an illustrated diary, begins as an affectionate reminiscence of the author's 1990s teenage infatuation with the late actor River Phoenix but morphs into a remarkable, sprawling account of the city of Portland and state of Oregon's dark history of white nationalism. Murphy details the relationship between white supremacist Tom Metzger (former KKK Grand Wizard and founder of the White Aryan Resistance) and the "Rose City" street kids like Ken Death that infiltrated Van Sant's films -- a relationship that culminates in an infamous episode of Geraldo. Murphy brilliantly weaves 1990s alternative culture, from Kurt Cobain and William Burroughs to Keanu Reeves and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, with two centuries of the Pacific Northwest's shameful history as a hotbed for white nationalism: from the Whitman massacre in 1847 and the Ku Klux Klan's role in Portland's city planning in the early 1900s to the brutal treatment of Black people displaced in the 1948 Vanport flood and through the 2014 armed standoff with Cliven Bundy's cattle ranch
Target audience
adult
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- Cartoonists -- Oregon -- Portland -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Murder -- Oregon -- Portland -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Murphy, Mannie -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Graphic novels
- Gay cartoonists -- Oregon -- Portland -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Comic books, strips, etc
- Hate crimes -- Oregon -- Portland -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Gender identity -- Comic books, strips, etc
- My own private Idaho (Motion picture) -- Appreciation -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Social problems -- Oregon -- Portland -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Mieske, Ken
- White supremacy movements -- Oregon -- Portland -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Electronic books
- White nationalism -- Oregon -- Portland -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Young gay men -- Oregon -- Portland -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Phoenix, River -- Appreciation -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Seraw, Mulugeta, 1960-1988 -- Death and burial -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Gay youth -- Oregon -- Portland -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Content
Artist
Author
Incoming Resources
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Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor2
- Creator1
- Genre3
- Subject18
- Cartoonists -- Oregon -- Portland -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Murder -- Oregon -- Portland -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Murphy, Mannie -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Graphic novels
- Gay cartoonists -- Oregon -- Portland -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Comic books, strips, etc
- Hate crimes -- Oregon -- Portland -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Gender identity -- Comic books, strips, etc
- My own private Idaho (Motion picture) -- Appreciation -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Social problems -- Oregon -- Portland -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Mieske, Ken
- White supremacy movements -- Oregon -- Portland -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Electronic books
- White nationalism -- Oregon -- Portland -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Young gay men -- Oregon -- Portland -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Phoenix, River -- Appreciation -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Seraw, Mulugeta, 1960-1988 -- Death and burial -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Gay youth -- Oregon -- Portland -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Content1
- Artist1
- Author1