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Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
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98/100Author:
Sarah Schulman
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date:
May 18, 2021
Based on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for todayâs activists, Let the Record Show is an exploration and reassessment of the coalitionâs inner workings, conflicts, achievements and ultimate fracture.
What The Reviewers Say
The effect is rather like standing in the middle of that large room, where anyone could speak up and share an idea. Everyone is talking; small stories branch off, coalesce pages later. Speakers shade in one another’s stories, offer another angle, disagree passionately. You turn a page, and the same people have their arms linked together at a protest. Shadows start to fall; in squares of gray text, deaths are marked, moments for remembrance. So many people leave the room.
... a masterpiece tome: part sociology, part oral history, part memoir, part call to arms.
... outstanding.
... remarkable.
