Independent Voices
Publisher: Souvenir Press. Country: United Kingdom. Date: ---.
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic Paperback
Randy Shilts
London, Souvenir Press Ltd., 2011 (Independent Voices series).
Paperback: 656 pages.
A masterpiece of investigative reporting, And the Band Played On is the definitive history of the spread of AIDS throughout the USA in the 1980 s. Randy Shilts was employed by the The San Francisco Chronicle to cover gay issues in 1981, the year AIDS came to international attention, and from 1982 Shilts devoted himself to covering the story of the disease and its medical, social and political implications. Shilts asks: how was this epidemic allowed to spread so far before it was taken seriously? Extensively researched, weaving together the personal stories of those in the gay community and the medical and political establishments with political and social reporting, he exposes how AIDS was ignored, or denied, as a threat by many national institutions. And the Band Played On shows that the greatest health crisis of the twentieth-century spread wildly as the Federal government put its budget ahead of public health while scientists were often more concerned with maintaining their prestige than saving lives.
INDEPENDENT VOICES (SOUVENIR PRESS)
Series Note: "Our Independent Voices series is dedicated to publishing writers who challenge conventional wisdom by providing an alternative viewpoint, and includes titles on Black History, books that focus on the LGBT community (including a ground-breaking history of HIV/AIDS by Randy Shilts), and two books by Alan Watts, among others."
-- About Us page on Souvenir Press website
Arranged alphabetically by title
An Affair Of the Heart
Dilys Powell
And the Band Played On
Randy Shilts
Black Like Me
John Howard Griffin
Blue Movie
Terry Southern
The Book
Alan Watts
City of Night
John Rechy
The Colonizer and the Colonized
Albert Memmi
Communion
Whitley Strieber
The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
Dominion
Matthew Scully
Dr Strangelove
Peter George
God in Search of Man
Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Hand-Reared Boy
Brian Aldiss
The Hard Life
Flann O’Brien
Homage to Gaia
James Lovelock
The Horn
John Clellon Holmes
A House in Flanders
Michael Jenkins
Human Nature: Justice Versus Power
Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault
The Magic Christian
Terry Southern
Mrs Shakespeare
Robert Nye
People Who Say Goodbye
P.Y. Betts
Really The Blues
Mezz Mezzrow
Realms of the Human Unconscious
Stanislav Grof
The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter
Albie Sachs
Stride Toward Freedom
Martin Luther King Jr.
Talk Dirty To Me
Sallie Tisdale
Tao: The Watercourse Way
Alan Watts
The Testament
Elie Wiesel
Tintin in the New World
Frederic Tuten
The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman
Flann O’Brien
The Warriors
Sol Yurick
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