'Personal inclination made me a historian. Personal encounter with public policy made me an activist.'

The remarkable autobiography of Mexican-Jewish disability rights activist and writer Gabriela Brimmer

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'Personal inclination made me a historian. Personal encounter with public policy made me an activist.'

Marshaling two decades' worth of painstaking research, Paul Longmore's book provides the first cultural history of the telethon, charting its rise and profiling