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Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams: A History of America's Romance With Illegal Drugs

3.6/5 ( ratings)

"Fascinating, well researched and finely honed... This is a must read." -- Judge Peggy F. Hora, California BenchOnce upon a time in America, morphine and cocaine were routinely sold in pharmacies, and "hop heads" gathered in shadowy basements to smoke opium. So begins Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams, Jill Jonnes's ground-breaking history of illegal drugs in America. Jonnes vividly traces our first turn-of-the-century drug epidemic, successfully quelled, and then follows the story into the postwar era: starting in the jazz world of the northern cities and moving through the "flower power" 1960s to the cocaine and crack explosion of the 1980s and 1990s.

Language: English

Pages: 510

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Release: April 28, 1999

ISBN: 0801861659

ISBN 13: 9780801861659

Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams: A History of America's Romance With Illegal Drugs

3.6/5 ( ratings)

"Fascinating, well researched and finely honed... This is a must read." -- Judge Peggy F. Hora, California BenchOnce upon a time in America, morphine and cocaine were routinely sold in pharmacies, and "hop heads" gathered in shadowy basements to smoke opium. So begins Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams, Jill Jonnes's ground-breaking history of illegal drugs in America. Jonnes vividly traces our first turn-of-the-century drug epidemic, successfully quelled, and then follows the story into the postwar era: starting in the jazz world of the northern cities and moving through the "flower power" 1960s to the cocaine and crack explosion of the 1980s and 1990s.

Language: English

Pages: 510

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Release: April 28, 1999

ISBN: 0801861659

ISBN 13: 9780801861659

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