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

by Randy Shilts

Reporting on the early AIDS epidemic

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    National Book Critics Circle Award nominee

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Reporting on the early AIDS epidemic

Randy Shilts’s book examines the early years of the AIDS epidemic through the politics, people, and institutions involved. Its central concern is how the disease spread while trusted institutions ignored or denied the threat. Framed as investigative reporting, it places institutional responses alongside the human stakes of the crisis. This 20th Anniversary edition republishes an account first published more than two decades earlier.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in the history of the AIDS epidemic and its early public response.
  • Readers seeking investigative reporting about the role of institutions in a public-health crisis.

Themes

AIDS epidemicInstitutional response and denialPolitics and public healthInvestigative reporting

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Book overview

Upon its first publication more than twenty years ago, And the Band Played on was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigative reporting.

An international bestseller, a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and made into a critically acclaimed movie, Shilts' expose revealed why AIDS was allowed to spread unchecked during the early 80's while the most trusted institutions ignored or denied the threat. One of the few true modern classics, it changed and framed how AIDS was discussed in the following years. Now republished in a special 20th Anniversary edition, And the Band Played On remains one of the essential books of our time.

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