This narrative of the uprising, reconstructed through interviews with student leaders, administrators, and others, shows a campus charged with a sense of political change almost a year before the protest began. Reference Research and Book News Deaf President Now! reveals the groundswell leading up to the history-making week when the students and other advocates seized the Gallaudet University campus and closed it down until their demands were met. To research this probing study, the authors interviewed in-depth more than 50 of the principal players. This telling book reveals the critical role played by a little-known group called the "Ducks, " a tight-knit band of six alumni determined to see a deaf president at Gallaudet. Deaf President Now! details how they urged the student leaders to ultimate success, including an analysis of the reasons for their achievement in light of the failure of many other student movements. This fascinating study also scrutinizes the lasting effects of this remarkable episode in what is known as "the civil rights movement of the deaf." Deaf President Now! tells the full story of the insurrection at Gallaudet University, an exciting study of how deaf people won social change for themselves and all disabled people everywhere through a peaceful revolution.