Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities ACT Gave the Largest Us Minority Its Rights (Paperback)

Author’s Note

Prologue: July 28, 1989

ONE
Forty-Six Words That Changed History

TWO
DC Outsiders Turn Washington Insiders

THREE
The Texas Connection

FOUR
Let Right Be Done

FIVE
Banging the Drum Loudly

SIX
Flat Earth, Deaf World

SEVEN
A New Band of Reformers

EIGHT
A New Day, a New ADA

NINE
White House Battles Senate

TEN
Secret Meetings and Bagel Breakfasts

ELEVEN
“This Means War!”

TWELVE
Building the Access Ramp to the House of Representatives

THIRTEEN
The Capitol Crawl

FOURTEEN
On the White House Lawn

FIFTEEN
Enabling the ADA

Acknowledgments

Cast of Characters

Bibliographical Note

Notes

Index