And the Band Played on: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic - Softcover

Shilts, Randy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312241356 ISBN 13: 9780312241353

Publisher: St Martin's Press, 2000

Synopsis

The book that was turned into a powerful HBO movie chronicles the series of events and decisions that resulted in the AIDS epidemic being discovered, and then largely ignored, in the early 1980s. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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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 born in 1951, in Davenport, Iowa. One of the first openly gay journalists hired at a major newspaper, he worked for the San Francisco Chronicle for thirteen years. He died of AIDS in 1994 at his home in the Sonoma County redwoods in California. He was the author of The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (1982), And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic (1987), and Conduct Unbecoming: Lesbians and Gays in the U.S. Military (1993). He also wrote extensively for many major newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Newsweek, Esquire, The Los Angeles Times, and The Advocate. And the Band Played On was made into a docudrama that was broadcast on HBO in 1993.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0312241356
• ISBN 13: 9780312241353
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 630