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| And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Randy Shilts
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Discount Category: Book
Selling Price: $16.95
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Customer Ratings:  70 comments
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 656
Shipping Weight (pounds): 1.3
Dimensions (inch): 8.1 x 5.5 x 1.9
ISBN: 0312374631
Dewey Decimal Number: 306
EAN: 9780312374631
Publication Date: November 27, 2007
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| Customer Comments:
 Engaging, enlightening, sad, inspiring, and a history all should read. December 22, 2008
I had to read this book in graduate school and begrudgingly started it only to be immediately drawn in, often staying up to 3am reading. Part was because it read like a fast paced, eventful fiction narrative however the sad part was that it documents the reality of the beginning of HIV in the United States. The books reads very quickly because of Shilts' editorial style, a concise narrative. It alternates between the happenings in specific people's lives as HIV manifests, the U.S. (Reagan) govt's response and the CDC/NIH. It places the level of infection in the U.S. solely on the lack of response. I highly recommend this book.
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And the Band Played On June 28, 2008
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.
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Amazing! April 15, 2008
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!
A Classic March 18, 2008
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!
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