![]() ![]() Even as greatmedical and social advances have relieved much suffering since the height of the AIDS crisis, the tendency of the powerful to ignore science when it suits them, and to abandon the dying when helping them appears unprofitable, remains in full force. "There was no excuse, in this country and in this time, for the spread of a deadly new epidemic." The unsparing prologue to Shilts's immense journalistic achievement is full of such bitter truths thirty years on, they shock the reader both for their historical accuracy and for their continuing truth. ![]() Inscribed first printing of the essential work of investigative journalism on the AIDS epidemic. ![]() Condition: Near fine in near fine jacket. ![]()
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