{"id":634,"date":"2012-09-02T00:19:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/125books\/?p=634"},"modified":"2012-09-02T00:19:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:19:04","slug":"year-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/2012\/09\/02\/year-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 100"},"content":{"rendered":"

1987: And the Band Played On<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Author\/Editor: Randy Shilts<\/h4>\n

Find it in Collins Library!<\/a><\/p>\n

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This book is featured on the Library of Congress web site<\/a> as one of the books that shaped America:<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the Band Played On<\/em> is the story of how the AIDS epidemic spread and how the government\u2019s initial indifference to the disease led to a new awareness of the urgency of devoting government resources to fighting the virus. Shilts\u2019s investigation has been compared to other works that led to increased efforts toward public safety, such as Upton Sinclair\u2019s The Jungle<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The meticulous research and commitment of the author to document the AIDS epidemic is a moving chronicle.\u00a0 In the acknowledgements, the author writes:<\/p>\n

\u201cthe people for whom I will always bear special reverence are those who were suffering from AIDS and who gave some of their last hours for interviews, sometimes while they were on their deathbeds laboring for breath.\u00a0 When I\u2019d ask why they\u2019d take the time for this, most hoped that something they said would save someone else from suffering.\u00a0 If there is an act that better defines heroism, I have not seen it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He goes on to write in the Preface,<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of their efforts, the story of politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic is, ultimately, a tale of courage as well as cowardice, compassion as well as bigotry, inspiration as well as venality, and redemptions as well as despair.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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