And the Band Played on: Politics, People, And the AIDS Epidemic - Brossura

Shilts, Randy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0312241356 ISBN 13: 9780312241353

Casa editrice: St Martins Pr, 2000

Riassunto

The book that was turned into a powerful HBO movie chronicles the series of events and decisions that resulted in the AIDS epidemic being discovered, and then largely ignored, in the early 1980s. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Randy Shilts was born in 1951, in Davenport, Iowa. One of the first openly gay journalists hired at a major newspaper, he worked for the San Francisco Chronicle for thirteen years. He died of AIDS in 1994 at his home in the Sonoma County redwoods in California. He was the author of The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (1982), And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic (1987), and Conduct Unbecoming: Lesbians and Gays in the U.S. Military (1993). He also wrote extensively for many major newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Newsweek, Esquire, The Los Angeles Times, and The Advocate. And the Band Played On was made into a docudrama that was broadcast on HBO in 1993.

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Book by Shilts Randy

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• Editore: St Martins Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0312241356
• ISBN 13: 9780312241353
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 630