Charming responses here. I haven't seen so many references to "straw men" since USENET circa 1994.
Incidentally, I've been reading And the Band Played On for the past three weeks or so, for the first time. I am sorry to admit that it is my first time reading it. While I've read many other AIDS histories and recriminations of the lack of action/blood on the hands of the Reagan administration, the painstakingly researched and meticulous nature of this book is pretty intense and damning (whatever one's take on Shilts' sexual politics may be, something I don't feel like arguing right now, anyway).
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Date: 2006-08-31 02:28 pm (UTC)Incidentally, I've been reading And the Band Played On for the past three weeks or so, for the first time. I am sorry to admit that it is my first time reading it. While I've read many other AIDS histories and recriminations of the lack of action/blood on the hands of the Reagan administration, the painstakingly researched and meticulous nature of this book is pretty intense and damning (whatever one's take on Shilts' sexual politics may be, something I don't feel like arguing right now, anyway).
Hope that's not, you know, a straw man.