Fit to Serve

This is the memoir of James C. Hormela man who grew up feeling different not only because his family owned the Hormel empire” and lived in a twenty-six-bedroom house in a small Midwest town, but because he was gay at a time when homosexuality was not discussed or accepted. Outwardly he tried to live up to the life his father wanted for himhe was a successful professional, had married a lovely woman, and had childrenbut as vola-tile changes in the late 1960s impeded on the American psyche, Hormel