"In 1988 historian and professor Paul Longmore burned his own academic book on the steps of the federal building in LA. Find out why in this model work of rigorous scholarship combined with galvinizing activism by this great man, a founder of the discipline of disability studies, who died last year. His influence on my Ugly Laws was direct and incalculable."

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