The Brutality of Fact. In The American People Volume 2 The Brutality of Fact, Larry Kramer completes his radical reimagining of his countrys history. Ranging from the brothels of 1950s Washington, D.C., to the activism of the 1980s and beyond, Kramer offers an elaborate phantasmagoria of bigoted conspiracists in the halls of power and ordinary individuals suffering their consequences. With wit and bite, Kramer explores among other things the sex lives of every recent president the complicated behavior of Americas two greatest spies, J. Edgar Hoover and James Jesus Angleton the rise of Sexopolis, the countrys