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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic is a 1987 book by San Francisco Chronicle journalist Randy Shilts.
- Randy Shilts, Matthew Modine
- 1987
Nov 27, 2007 · Journalist Randy Shilts wrote a well-researched, even-handed, and incredibly readable account of the science, politics, and personalities of the incipient (and then burgeoning) AIDS epidemic. The book begins in Africa in 1976 and concludes shortly after Rock Hudson's death from the disease in 1985 (which finally brought public attention to the ...
May 14, 2013 · I found 'And the Band Played On' a tough book to put down. This gripping set of intertwined tales is a foundational work of literature for helping the general public to reach a more accurate understanding of the history of AIDS.
Jan 1, 1987 · 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.
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Nov 1, 1987 · Randy Shilts creates a tour de force history of the early years of the AIDS epidemic in And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic. It’s 600 pages of intense details, drawn from thousands of interviews with 900+ people.
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In answering these questions, Shilts weaves weaves the disparate threads into a coherent story, pinning down every evasion and contradiction at the highest levels of the...
Apr 9, 2000 · And the Band Played On is both a tribute to these heroic people and a stinging indictment of the institutions that failed the nation so badly. Randy Shilts was born in 1951, in...
