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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 · This book captures a period in time where, in the midst of sometimes slow-moving science, second-class-citizen politics, and a seemingly indifferent larger society, some dedicated people struggled to raise awareness, to change habits, and others, to face death with equanimity.
Nov 1, 1987 · And the Band Played On shows how AIDS was able to spread unchecked for so many years during the early days of the epidemic. It highlights the stories of different people who died of AIDS as well as the doctors, researchers, and politicians working to combat the epidemic.
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Nov 3, 2011 · Extensively researched, weaving together the personal stories of those in the gay community and the medical and political establishments with political and social reporting, he exposes how AIDS was ignored, or denied, as a threat by many national institutions.
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- Randy Shilts
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic. MP3 CD – MP3 Audio, Nov. 18 2014. By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the nation, killing thousands of people and emerging as the greatest health crisis of the 20th century.
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- Randy Shilts
Apr 15, 2021 · "And The Band Played On," is a reference to the musicians on the Titanic, who reputedly kept playing as the ship sank. The book details how this was exactly the way the authorities behaved while people in their thousands were dying from AIDS.
- Randy Shilts
Nov 27, 2007 · Books. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition. Randy Shilts. St. Martin's Publishing Group, Nov 27, 2007 - Social...
