![]() ![]() The author’s vivid portrayal of the ravages of AIDS was matched only by the stridency of the criticisms he levelled against those charged with controlling it (page 213). The book also documented the roles, both positive and negative, played by the politicians, physicians, health agencies, and the media, who influenced the course and outcome of the outbreak. ![]() ![]() The book depicts HIV’s almost clandestine arrival, its initial silent spread, and the bleak period that followed as it ferociously struck down its victims, a time when ‘the brightest moments…tended to do little more than illuminate how truly dark the future would be’ (page 457). It is an exhaustive record of the impact of HIV on the homosexual communities of San Francisco and New York, the major epicentres of the plague. Widely acknowledged as the definitive account of the history of AIDs, this book charts the course of the epidemic as it swept across the world, with a focus on America in the 1980’s. And the Band Played On Author: Randy Shilts Synopsis ![]()
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