false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179580193m/933062.jpg 933062 1 There can be few American stories more inspiring than that of the tremendous 43,000-panel AIDS quilt, a national memorial as powerfully symbolic as the Vietnam War Memorial--but made from a material as fragile and ephemeral as human life. The quilt is predicated on a simple concept: putting names to those who have died of AIDS humanizes the statistics and forces those who visit the quilt to look beyond the stigmatized categories of gayness and contagious disease that cling to the popular image of AIDS. Cleve Jones stitched the first panel in his backyard in February 1987 as a memorial to his best friend, Marvin. He has been speaking in public about the quilt for many years now, and his narrative in <I>Stitching a Revolution</I> is smooth and engaging. Perhaps his best quality as a storyteller is his generous recognition of others, shown in his memory of Rosa Parks in her Sunday hat: "When she handed me the quilts she'd made for her neighbors," Jones recalls, "she wanted to relish only their lives, not the divisions--just memorialize her friends and what they'd meant to her. You're doing a wonderful thing, young man, she'd said. There were no tears in her eyes, just a message for me to continue. Did my fatigue show? Did she see that the death threats and potshots had taken their toll? Dismiss them, she seemed to say, and grow old. A challenge. I brighten and feel combative." <I>--Regina Marler</I> 918050 3 8 2001 Stitching a Revolution: The Making of an Activist total:8|5:4|4:2|3:2|2:0|1:0| 8 34 11 1 933062 0062516426 9780062516428 8 1 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179580193m/933062.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/933062.Stitching_a_Revolution_The_Making_of_an_Activist 5 0 false Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 21:19:41 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 11:35:51 -0700 2009 933062 0062516426 9780062516428 8 1 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179580193m/933062.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/933062.Stitching_a_Revolution_The_Making_of_an_Activist 5 0 false Sat Oct 24 00:27:45 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 00:27:45 -0700 2009 933062 0062516426 9780062516428 8 1 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179580193m/933062.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/933062.Stitching_a_Revolution_The_Making_of_an_Activist 5 0 false Wed Aug 26 19:49:22 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 19:49:22 -0700 2009 933062 0062516426 9780062516428 8 1 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179580193m/933062.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/933062.Stitching_a_Revolution_The_Making_of_an_Activist 0 0 false Sat Aug 08 07:33:02 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 07:33:02 -0700 2009 933062 0062516426 9780062516428 8 1 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179580193m/933062.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/933062.Stitching_a_Revolution_The_Making_of_an_Activist 5 0 false Wed Aug 05 15:25:15 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 15:25:15 -0700 2009 933062 0062516426 9780062516428 8 1 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179580193m/933062.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/933062.Stitching_a_Revolution_The_Making_of_an_Activist 4 0 false Mon Jul 27 13:56:39 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 07:24:06 -0700 2009 933062 0062516426 9780062516428 8 1 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179580193m/933062.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/933062.Stitching_a_Revolution_The_Making_of_an_Activist 4 0 false Wed Jul 15 23:05:21 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 23:05:21 -0700 2009 933062 0062516426 9780062516428 8 1 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179580193m/933062.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/933062.Stitching_a_Revolution_The_Making_of_an_Activist 3 0 false Fri Apr 10 21:22:07 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 21:58:59 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 21:22:07 -0700 2009 933062 0062516426 9780062516428 8 1 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179580193m/933062.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/933062.Stitching_a_Revolution_The_Making_of_an_Activist 0 0 false Sun Jan 18 15:30:25 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 15:30:25 -0800 2009 933062 0062516426 9780062516428 8 1 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179580193m/933062.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/933062.Stitching_a_Revolution_The_Making_of_an_Activist 0 0 false Thu Jan 15 09:21:30 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 09:21:30 -0800 2009 933062 0062516426 9780062516428 8 1 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179580193m/933062.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/933062.Stitching_a_Revolution_The_Making_of_an_Activist 3 0 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 28 10:09:33 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 02 19:20:14 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=933062