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Hawkins Fuller moves confidently on the slippery political stage of 1950s Washington. As an assistant to a Democratic Senator, he enables a young Republican, of all things, to get a job in Joseph McCarthy’s office. The two men start a turbulent affair that will last right until the AIDS crisis. PHILADELPHIA writer Ron Nyswaner shines with a star-studded, epic and historical series that makes a point of showing the immense psychological costs of a life “in the closet”.