"In this memoir of his political becoming, Philip Green, my oldest friend, says of grade school harassment incidents, 'my best guess is that then and ever after I wore my heart too much on my sleeve, blurted out uncool thoughts and feelings about personal life and personhood.' In Taking Sides, he continues to do that. Phil's account, unfiltered and sometimes unnerving, exploits his uncanny recall of the texture (books, movies, music) of the postwar...