9780374185138-0374185131-Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993

Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993

ISBN-13: 9780374185138
ISBN-10: 0374185131
Author: Sarah Schulman
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover 736 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780374185138
ISBN-10: 0374185131
Author: Sarah Schulman
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover 736 pages

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Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 (ISBN-13: 9780374185138 and ISBN-10: 0374185131), written by authors Sarah Schulman, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2021. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other Social Activists (Leaders & Notable People, Medicine, Sociology) books. You can easily purchase or rent Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 (Hardcover, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Social Activists books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.64.

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ANew York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice.Longlisted for the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize."This is not reverent, definitive history. This is a tactician's bible." --Parul Sehgal,The New York Times

"A masterpiece of historical research and intellectual analysis that creates many windows into both a vanished world and the one that emerged from it, the one we live in now
." --Alexander Chee

Twenty years in the making, Sarah Schulman'sLet the Record Showis the most comprehensive political history ever assembled of ACT UP and American AIDS activism


In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable, ingenious, and multifaceted attack on the corporations, institutions, governments, and 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, and battled--and beat--The New York Times, the Catholic Church, and the pharmaceutical industry. Their activism, in its complex and intersectional power, transformed the lives of people with AIDS and the bigoted society that had abandoned them.

Based on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for today's activists,Let the Record Show is a revelatory exploration--and long-overdue reassessment--of the coalition's inner workings, conflicts, achievements, and ultimate fracture. Schulman, one of the most revered queer writers and thinkers of her generation, explores the how and the why, examining, with her characteristic rigor and bite, how a group of desperate outcasts changed America forever, and in the process created a livable future for generations of people across the world.

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