@article{328697, author = {Frank, Nathaniel.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/328697}, title = {Unfriendly fire : how the gay ban undermines the military and weakens America /}, publisher = {Thomas Dunne Books,}, abstract = {When the "don't ask, don't tell" policy emerged as a political compromise under Bill Clinton in 1993, it only ended up worsening the destructive gay ban that had been on the books since World War II. Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews, Nathaniel Frank exposes the military's policy toward guys and lesbians.}, recid = {328697}, pages = {xxi, 342 p. ;}, address = {New York :}, year = {2009}, }