The Gravest Show on Earth: America in the Age of AIDS

By Elinor Burkett

Book Overview

Claiming that AIDS never got a chance to be simply a disease, but instead was quickly co-opted as either a scourge from God, a comment on the nation's sexual practices, an opportunity for homophobes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395745373
• ISBN13: 9780395745373
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 399 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

The Gravest Show on Earth

The Gravest Show on earth is in a long line of books denouncing the AIDS/HIV connection, if read in that way. It is highly entertaining, informative, stylish, and unfortunately very necessary Ten Years after being published. Interesting that no one has yet reviewed this book, which goes to say that, again unfortunately, hardly anyone still knows. Read it for the laughter, read it for the cheer. Judgment day commeth, and although it might not commeth right soon, when and if it does...The earth will shake, not only for ROBERT GALLO and Co., but for every iota of American hubris that abounds. This is a masterwork of investigative journalism.