And the Band Played On: Politics, People And the Aids Epidemic - Softcover

Shilts, Randy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014011369X ISBN 13: 9780140113693

Publisher: Penguin, 1988

Synopsis

Why was AIDS allowed to spread unchecked during the early 1980s while our most trusted institutions ignored or denied the threat? In this expose of one of the most important issues of our time, the author answers this question - revealing how the federal government put its budgetary concerns ahead of the nation's welfare, how health authorities placed political expediency before public health, and how some scientists valued national prestige more than saving lives.

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Review:

The pre-eminent chronicler of gay life. --The New York Times

Rivals in power and intensity, and in the brilliance of its reporting and writing, Truman Capote s IN COLD BLOOD. --The Boston Globe

A heroic work of journalism on what must rank as one of the foremost catastrophes of modern history. --New York Times

About the Author:

Randy Shilts was a pioneering gay journalist who wrote for The San Francisco Chronicle where he was the first openly gay reporter with a gay beat in the US press. He was diagnosed as HIV positive in 1987 and died in 1994.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 014011369X
• ISBN 13: 9780140113693
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 672