TY - JOUR
AU - Henking, Susan E.
AB - Book Reviews 579 to providing an excellent template for future ity, and where it fit in education, the need for studies. increased social services for people with aids, and Cold War foreign policy objectives” (p. Anne Kirschmann 7). Not all conservatives—even all Reagan-era University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth conservatives—were alike. Brier also under- North Dartmouth, Massachusetts mines tales of the demise of gay liberation as predating or caused by aids. She deconstructs Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the easy distinctions between activist and service aids Crisis. By Jennifer Brier. (Chapel Hill: organizations, repositions individuals such as University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xx, Larry Kramer, and recognizes early engage- 289 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3314-8.) ment of feminists (for example, Cindy Patton) and grassroots health politics. Moreover, Bri- Infectious Ideas challenges orthodox ver- er shows that attention to race, poverty, and sions—both popular and scholarly—of wider global concerns is rooted in a longer his- several recent American history topics: the tory of intersectional politics. Brier’s examina- causes and timing of the dominant social, tion of the role of the Ford Foundation, too, political, and economic conservatism associ- is crucial to understanding the interrelation of ated with Ronald Reagan; histories of 
TI - Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the aids Crisis. By Jennifer Brier. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xx, 289 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3314-8.)
JO - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.1093/jahist/97.2.579
DA - 2010-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/infectious-ideas-u-s-political-responses-to-the-aids-crisis-by-mAYF02nuQ3
SP - 579
EP - 579
VL - 97
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -