Books : And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 306
EAN: 9780312374631
ISBN: 0312374631
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 656
Publication Date: November 27, 2007
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date: November 27, 2007
Sales Rank: 8173
Studio: St. Martin's Griffin
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Upon it's first publication twenty years ago, And The Band Played on was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigatve reporting. An international bestseller, a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and made into a critically acclaimed movie, Shilts' expose revealed why AIDS was allowed to spread unchecked during the early 80's while the most trusted institutions ignored or denied the threat.  One of the few true modern classics, it changed and framed how AIDS was discussed in the following years. Now republished in a special 20th Anniversary edition, And the Band Played On remains one of the essential books of our time.
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In the first major book on AIDS, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Randy Shilts examines the making of an epidemic. Shilts researched and reported the book exhaustively, chronicling almost day-by-day the first five years of AIDS. His work is critical of the medical and scientific communities' initial response and particularly harsh on the Reagan Administration, who he claims cut funding, ignored calls for action and deliberately misled Congress. Shilts doesn't stop there, wondering why more people in the gay community, the mass media and the country at large didn't stand up in anger more quickly. The AIDS pandemic is one of the most striking developments of the late 20th century and this is the definitive story of its beginnings.
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I had to read this book in graduate school and begrudgingly started it only to be immediately drawn in, often staying up to 3am reading. Part was because it read like a fast paced, eventful fiction narrative however the sad part was that it documents the reality of the beginning of HIV in the United States. The books reads very quickly because of Shilts' editorial style, a concise narrative. It alternates between the happenings in specific people's lives as HIV manifests, the U.S. (Reagan) govt's response and the CDC/NIH. It places the level of infection in the U.S. solely on the lack of response. I highly recommend this book.
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I have watched this DVD more times than I can count. Now am reading the book, makes you really think about. What else have we been persuaded to look the other way about? There seems to be an awful lot of cover ups that go on in our government, CDC and the drug industry.
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a must read. you will not be able to put it down. It is constantly unfolding before you. It will make you stop for moments of reflection while you ponder how we could have all been so stupid. PLEASE READ!
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I have just gone back and re-read this book for the second time. I was very aware of the beginnings of the HIV/AIDS crisis around the time they began calling it the Gay disease when the first newspaper articles were written. I am a straight public health nurse beginning to work on teen suicide at that time but it was clear from the beginning that this disease was terrible and that politicians were cowardly in facing this crisis from the very beginning. I keep this book on my treasured book shelf so I will never forget how bad things can get in this country. Lately, though, you don't need a book to remind you!
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