"My book can seem to suggest a progress narrative in which a unified U.S. disability movement remembers the unsightly beggar ordinances in order to achieve passage of the law to end all ugly law, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Bagenstos’s sharp, skeptical analysis complicates that story, with a critical eye both on the law and on disability activism, in the name of new concepts of disability justice."

Recommended by Susan Schweik, Professor of English and author of The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public.