Let The Record Show Sarah Schulman by Sarah Schulman 9780374719951, 0374719950 instant download after payment.

"This is not reverent, definitive history. This is a tactician’s bible." -Parul Sehgal, The New York Times Twenty years in the making, Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show is the most comprehensive political history ever assembled of ACT UP & American AIDS activism In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad & unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, & backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, & creativity, it took on the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable, ingenious, & multifaceted attack on the corporations, institutions, governments, & individuals who stood in the way of AIDS treatment for all.
They stormed the FDA and NIH in Washington, DC, and started needle exchange programs in New York; they took over Grand Central Terminal and fought to change the legal definition of AIDS to include women; they transformed the American insurance industry, weaponized art and advertising to push their agenda, & battled—and beat—The New York Times, the Catholic Church, & the pharmaceutical industry.
Their activism, in its complex & intersectional power, transformed the lives of people with AIDS & the bigoted society that had abandoned them.
Based on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members & rich with lessons.Winner of the 2022 Lambda Literary LGBTQ Nonfiction Award & the 2022
NLGJA Excellence in Book Writing Award. Finalist for the PEN/John
Kenneth Galbriath Award for Nonfiction, the Gotham Book Prize, & the
ALA Stonewall Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award. A 2021 New York Times
Book Review Notable Book & a New York Times Book Review Editors'
Choice. Longlisted for the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize.
One of NPR, New York, & The Guardian's Best Books of 2021, one of
Buzzfeed's Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2021, one of Electric Literature's
Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021, one of NBC's 10 Most Notable LGBTQ
Books of 2021, and one of Gay Tim