Disability Pride

Disability PrideIn Disability Pride, disabled journalist Ben Mattlin weaves together interviews and reportage to introduce a cavalcade of individuals, ideas, and events in engaging, fast paced prose. He traces the generation that came of age after the ADA reshaped America, and how it is influencing the future. He documents how autistic self advocacy and the neurodiversity movement upended views of those whose brains work differently. He lifts the veil on a thriving

young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task

In the main hall there is a brass representation of a compass rose

Graham Weber has been the director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty T-shirt walks into the American consulate in Hamburg and says the agency has been hacked

This jigsaw will satisfy your need for a challenge

the political leader

there is also salsa

Little Sister

George Whitefield

the stories featured here altered the course of the nation's history

Tocqueville made a number of prescient observations about American life―whether it be the contrast between equality and liberty or Americans’ belief that they all belong to the middle class―that remain as relevant today as when they were first written

putting aside their differences to make a great country

Exhibited as a digital copy in: "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America's Library" at the Annenberg Space for Photography