Worth Reading to get past hype.
This review of the events surrounding the expose and aftermath of the Willowbrook disgrace has much detail, but as someone who knew many of the participants, it lacks insight, analysis and most important, a social political understanding of these events as part of a larger social movement.
In spite of its length, much of the political context was left out. Perhaps the authors wanted to appear objectively neutral. Maybe they didn't see the passion for human justice that motivated the organizers that precipitated this event. For example, little is said about the related work of Dr. Bronston and others, how it fit into other similar struggles going on around the country then and after. Another omission was the essential racism of the institution and the refusal of the media to allow racist and class issues to surface.
Still, a useful document, if someone isn't mislead into thinking that is all there was to in.
