Randy Shilts

And the Band Played On (eBook, ePUB)

Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: St. Martin's Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781429930390
• Artikelnr.: 39936056

Autorenporträt

Randy Shilts saw himself as a literary journalist in the tradition of Norman Mailer and Truman Capote and was a pioneering voice in raising awareness of gay civil rights issues, as well as the AIDS crisis, and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists' Association in 1993. He found that he was HIV positive in 1987 and died in 1994. He also wrote The Mayor of Castro Street, a biography of Harvey Milk.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Dramatis Personae
The Bureaucracy
Prologue
Part I. Behold, A Pale Horse
1. The Feast of the Hearts
Part II. Before/1980
2. Glory Days
3. Beaches of the Dispossessed
4. Foreshadowing
5. Freeze Frames
Part III. Paving the Road/1981
6. Critical Mass
7. Good Intentions
8. The Prettiest One
9. Ambush Poppers
10. Golf Courses of Science
11. Bad Moon Rising
Part IV. The Gathering Darkness/1982
12. Enemy Time
13. Patient Zero
14. Bicentennial Memories
15. Nightsweats
16. Too Much Blood
17. Entropy
18. Running on Empty
19. Forced Feeding
20. Dirty Secrets
21. Dancing in the Dark
Part V. Battle Lines/January-June 1983
22. Let It Bleed
23. Midnight Confessions
24. Denial
25. Anger
26. The Big Enchilada
27. Turning Points
28. Only the Good
29. Priorities
30. Meanwhile
31. AIDSpeak Spoken Here
32. Star Quality
Part VI. Rituals/July-December 1983
33. Marathons
34. Just Another Day
35. Politics
36. Science
37. Public Health
38. Journalism
39. People
Part VII. Lights & Tunnels/1984
40. Prisoners
41. Bargaining
42. The Feast of the Hearts, Part II
43. Squeeze Play
44. Traitors
45. Political Science
46. Downbound Train
47. Republicans and Democrats
48. Embarrassed
49. Depression
50. The War
Part VIII. The Butcher's Bill/1985
51. Heterosexuals
52. Exiles
53. Reckoning
54. Exposed
55. Awakening
56. Acceptance
57. Endgame
Part IX. Epilogue/After
58. Reunion
59. The Feast of the Hearts, Part III
Notes on Sources
Index