 |
|
Title: And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition
ISBN: 0312374631
Author:
Randy Shilts
Publicate Date: 2007-11-27
Publish: 2007-11-27
List Price: $16.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
 |
|
|
|
|
Amazon Lowest New Price: $9.45
Amazon Lowest Used Price: $7.63
Amazon Merchant Price: $11.53
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Customer Review: |
|
1: Super Fast Delivery!
Excellent merchant - book arrived super fast. Condition as described. Would not hesitate to shop with this seller again.
|
2: And the Band Played On
I have watched this DVD more times than I can count. Now am reading the book, makes you really think about. What else have we been persuaded to look the other way about? There seems to be an awful lot of cover ups that go on in our government, CDC and the drug industry.
E Teal
|
3: Amazing!
a must read. you will not be able to put it down. It is constantly unfolding before you. It will make you stop for moments of reflection while you ponder how we could have all been so stupid. PLEASE READ!
|
4: A Classic
I have just gone back and re-read this book for the second time. I was very aware of the beginnings of the HIV/AIDS crisis around the time they began calling it the Gay disease when the first newspaper articles were written. I am a straight public health nurse beginning to work on teen suicide at that time but it was clear from the beginning that this disease was terrible and that politicians were cowardly in facing this crisis from the very beginning. I keep this book on my treasured book shelf so I will never forget how bad things can get in this country. Lately, though, you don't need a book to remind you!
|
5: How the fight against AIDS was initially lost....
Even though I've been fortunate to never have had AIDS touch my life, this book still brought home a powerhouse of feelings - shame at seeing how poorly so many of our fellow human beings were treated, anger at the way their suffering was treated as insignificant, grief at how many people have been lost to such an insidious disease and outrage at the way our government - and governmental health agencies - were willing to play politics when peoples lives were at stake.
Randy Shilts creates a moving, troubling narrative that gives "And the Band Played On" more of the feeling of a novel than of a report or documentation of a study. You get to know the people he writes about enough to care about them - and about what happens to them.
In more recent years, there have been some questions raised about his identification of Gaeton Dugas as "Patient Zero," with current thinking that it took a number of different people to bring AIDS to the western world and begin spreading here. Obviously, this is a point that will likely never be entirely resolved, but even if you disagree with Shilts theory, the rest of the book is still very informative and well worth reading.
|
|
|
|
|
