A review by marmoo
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts

4.0

This history of the early political, scientific, and social response to the early AIDS crisis is as infuriating as it is heartbreaking. Randy Shilts has his heroes and his villains—perhaps displaying that common journalistic bias toward a willing source—but his underlying sense of outrage doesn’t undercut the book’s authority; rather, it imbues the account with even more urgency. All in all, And the Band Played On is a landmark example of the power of good journalism.