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Shilts reconstructed the AIDS epidemic's first years and showed the deaths were a political choice, from unfunded research to blood banks that refused to screen. He learned his diagnosis the day he finished.
Milosz, a Polish poet who served the new regime and then defected, explains how intelligent people talked themselves into Stalinism. Ketman, he calls it: believing one thing and professing another.
Western scholarship on the East was never neutral, Said argues: scholars and novelists built an exotic, backward Orient that empire could claim to govern. He upended how the West studies everyone it ruled.