Max Starkloff and the Fight for Disability Rights

by Charles E. Claggett Jr. and Richard H. Weiss

In 1959, at the age of twenty-one, Max Starkloff was in a car accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down. His doctors doubted he would live longer than a few days, and, if he survived, the hope for his quality of life would be minimal. How did this young man with barely a high school education become the leader of a powerful disability rights movement and the founder of the Starkloff Disability Institute? This is his remarkable story.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883982790
• ISBN13: 9781883982799
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Missouri Historical Society Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"