And the Band Played on: People, Politics and the AIDS Epidemic Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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

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.Read More

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  • Product Description

    The basis of an HBO movie, starring Matthew Modine, Richard Gere, Alan Alda, and Lily Tomlin, this "heroic work of journalism" (New York Times) reveals how the federal govrenment put budget considerations ahead of the nation's welfare.

  • 014011369X
  • 9780140113693
  • Randy Shilts
  • 1 March 1994
  • Penguin Books Ltd
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 672
  • New edition
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