Band Played On
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Submitted by syedmudassir on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Band Played On
There is so much to say about this book that I'm not exactly sure where to begin. I've been turning over opening lines in my head for the last few days since I finished this, and none of them sounded completely right. This book made me sad, frustrated and angry all at once. I wanted to go drive down to the Capitol Building in DC, kick open the doors to congress with a huge-ass cigar in my teeth and tell those bureaucratic motherfuckers that they weren't gonna screw around with us anymore. At the same time, I felt a very strong urge to become an expatriate somewhere more together, and let America lay in the squalid moral gutter of its own creation.
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Despite all this, I would still recommend this book to anyone who thinks that we, as Americans, are actually on top of things here. If you still hold the illusion that the people who run our government and businesses actually care about us, read this book. If you think the 1980s was just a gung-ho time, where everything was hunky-dory and there was a really together government running things, read this book. If you haven't a cynical bone in your body, you will once you read this book.
And once you have read this book, the world will never look quite the same to you again.
And The Band Played On is, if you haven't been paying attention, the first nonfiction book to appear in this review archive. Normally I don't do nonfiction, mostly because it's never quite as interesting as the fictional stuff. But this book breaks that preconception wide open. Written in the style of investigative journalism, And The Band Played On is the story of the first five years of the AIDS epidemic, from 1980 to 1985. Through interviews, Freedom of Information requests, and general good research, Randy Shilts, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle has put together a very coherant and frightening account of the people and institutions involved in the discovery and attempt to control AIDS.
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