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世纪的哭泣（译文纪实）
(us) Randy Shields
With more than 700 pages, this book tells a story: Why is AIDS epidemic in the United States? Why is time of the essence in this disaster? "Book of the Century" by the New York Public Library, "Top 100 Nonfiction Classics" by Time Magazine, and nominated for the National Book Award. The first edition stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 5 weeks and won the Stonewall Book Award in 1987. It is the most prescient chronicle of gay history in the United States in the 20th century and has been translated into 7 languages. In 1993, HBO made it into a movie. It received a total of 20 nominations and 9 awards, including the 1994 Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie. This is an extensive and comprehensive journalistic investigation that uses time as a context to tell the story of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune syndrome (AIDS) in the United States from the discovery to the spread in detail, and shows the events and figures that affect AIDS, especially individuals in government departments, medical and research institutions, gay organizations, and the media. While depicting human cowardice, despair, selfishness, and greed with a large number of facts, it also presents human beings' courage, enterprising, selfless, and compassion in times of death crisis with wonderful details.
With more than 700 pages, this book tells a story: Why is AIDS epidemic in the United States? Why is time of the essence in this disaster? "Book of the Century" by the New York Public Library, "Top 100 Nonfiction Classics" by Time Magazine, and nominated for the National Book Award. The first edition stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 5 weeks and won the Stonewall Book Award in 1987. It is the most prescient chronicle of gay history in the United States in the 20th century and has been translated into 7 languages. In 1993, HBO made it into a movie. It received a total of 20 nominations and 9 awards, including the 1994 Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie. This is an extensive and comprehensive journalistic investigation that uses time as a context to tell the story of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune syndrome (AIDS) in the United States from the discovery to the spread in detail, and shows the events and figures that affect AIDS, especially individuals in government departments, medical and research institutions, gay organizations, and the media. While depicting human cowardice, despair, selfishness, and greed with a large number of facts, it also presents human beings' courage, enterprising, selfless, and compassion in times of death crisis with wonderful details.