And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition
by Randy Shilts
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Author: Randy ShiltsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-11-27
ISBN: 0312374631
Number of pages: 656
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Summary: 4 Stars
This was a book that had to be written. It also had to be written by Randy Shilts. It's a fantastic book and a history come alive for those who don't remember the dark days of the beginning of AIDS. I was led to this book a second time after reading The Mayor of Castro Street - the inspiration of the movie Milk.
The first time I read And The Band Played On was when it was first published. I read it to get a better idea of what had happened, what were the facts of the onset of the plague and how was the community really affected.
This time I was able to read it with more distance and it was a brilliant history and evoked a time long gone.
It was a perfect follow on from The Mayor of Castro Street and the two are a briliant history of the times, complete with the characters that made the community what is was.
For anyone under 40 the book will give a history of something they are totally unfamiliar with. For those over, it will be a rich reminder.
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Summary of And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition
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.
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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