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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.196979200973
EAN: 9780140113693
ISBN: 014011369X
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 672
Publication Date: October 04, 1988
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Editorial Review:
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.
The basis of an HBO movie, starring Matthew Modine, Richard Gere, Alan Alda, and Lily Tomlin, this "heroic work of journalism" (New York Times) reveals how the federal govrenment put budget considerations ahead of the nation's welfare.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - And the Band Played On
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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Rating: - Amazing!
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!
Rating: - A Classic
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 ... Read More
Rating: - How the fight against AIDS was initially lost....
Even though I've been fortunate to never have had AIDS touch my life, this book still brought home a powerhouse of feelings - shame at seeing how poorly so many of our fellow human beings were treated, anger at the way their suffering was treated as insignificant, grief at how many people have been lost to such an insidious disease and outrage at the way our government - and governmental health agencies - were willing to play politics when peoples lives were at stake.
Randy Shilts creates ... Read More
Rating: - Review of And The Band Played On
I've just received it and only just started reading it. So far I agree with all the other reviewers that this is an extraordinary and landmark piece of investigative journalism. Looking back, in 2007, on the history of the epidemic it very moving to see the earliest medical struggles to identify the disease, the bizarre historical melding of the triumph of conservatism in politics and the emergence of the 'gay disease' in the early 1980s. Given the subsequent explosion of the disease in the developing ... Read More
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