By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the nation, killing thousands of people and emerging as the greatest health crisis of the 20th century. America faced a troubling question: What happened? How was this epidemic allowed to spread so far before it was taken seriously? In answering these questions, Shilts weaves the disparate threads into a coherent story, pinning down every evasion and contradiction at the highest levels of the medical, political, and media establishments.
Shilts shows that the epidemic spread wildly because the federal government put budget ahead of the nation's welfare; health authorities placed political expediency before the public health, and scientists were often more concerned with international prestige than saving lives. Against this backdrop, Shilts tells the heroic stories of individuals in science and politics, public health and the gay community, who struggled to alert the nation to the enormity of the danger it faced. And the Band Played On is both a tribute to these heroic people and a stinging indictment of the institutions that failed the nation so badly.
RANDY SHILTS was one of the first journalists to recognize AIDS as an important national issue and, in the early 1980s, he began to report on AIDS full time for the San Francisco Chronicle, making him the only journalist to do so. He was also the author of The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk and Conduct Unbecoming: Gay and Lesbians in the U.S. Military. Shilts died of AIDS-related complications in early 1994.
「有些人已经说过,罗纳德·里根在历史书上只有一件事被人铭记:他是任由艾滋病在美国蔓延人;是在行动迫在眉睫时,将政治置于美国人民的健康之上的国家元首。」 如果最开始发现的时候就得到重视,得到公众的关注和理解,这可能可以改变一些。然而,疾控中心只把这些未确定的...
评分《世纪的哭泣》原著题目是“And the Band Played On”,让人联想到杜牧的诗句:商女不知亡国恨,隔江犹唱后庭花。书问世以后,许多人问兰迪·希尔兹为何取此书名,他解释道,“照常营业”的时髦说法而已——其实这是一句歌词,在美国乐队“The Temptation”1970年的作品“Ball ...
评分2019年底,上海译文出版社推出“译文纪实”系列新作品——《世纪的哭泣》中文版。这本将近750页的书,其厚度在“译文纪实”书系里可谓一枝独秀,被很多读者列为“2020开年阅读第一战”。 而突如其来的疫情,也让这本书收获了意料之外的关注,很多读者纷纷购入这本厚厚的纪实作...
评分这本书期待已久了,终于在去年12月份的时候出版,译文纪实系列的作品从大多从亲历者或者记者的角度出发,通过自己的经历,或大量的采访和调研,为读者还原故事的全景。这种体裁是很有价值的,它帮助我们站在更高的视角上全面观察艾滋病疫情鲜为人知的背后故事。 译文纪实关于传...
艾滋恐怕是所有疾病中与政治最密切挂钩的了,如果少数群体能得到更多的同理心、接受度和关注度,它本不会成为像现在这样令人生畏的杀手,与其说艾滋是上帝对同性恋的惩罚,不如说是上帝对大多数人冷漠麻木的惩罚……这本真的写得很好了,我还说怎么写得这么客观和有同理心,最后访谈里说是openly gay reporter……那没事儿了
评分20多年前读过的,当时在一家艾滋病研究中心工作。而今物是人非了......
评分这本大概是对艾滋的历史最全面深入的解剖了。也只有Randy SHILTS能写出这样的作品—Access和Empathy!如果我是editor,我唯一的建议是600页的内容其实是可以再浓缩的。(有Hiroshima做先例,任何non-fiction都应该有被浓缩在两百页以内依然是masterpiece的自信。)
评分这本大概是对艾滋的历史最全面深入的解剖了。也只有Randy SHILTS能写出这样的作品—Access和Empathy!如果我是editor,我唯一的建议是600页的内容其实是可以再浓缩的。(有Hiroshima做先例,任何non-fiction都应该有被浓缩在两百页以内依然是masterpiece的自信。)
评分大概是对美国80年代关于艾滋病发现和科研历史最详尽的一本书了,作者详实的访谈让人感动。难以想象最初为AIDS挣扎的人都经历了什么,在最黑暗的地方也有光,要将火炬传递下去。
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