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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. Sarah Schulman, one of the most revered queer writers…

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1 author picked Let the Record Show as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

A terrific return to a terrible time, the AIDS crisis in New York and the crucial, angry work of ACT-UP to change the way gay people and AIDS were treated. A really thoughtful and provocative book with lots of testimony from people who were there, and remembrances of those who did not survive.

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