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

Name: Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams: A History of America's Romance with Illegal Drugs
Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press
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paperback – April 28, 1999

by Jonnes, Jill

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ISBN-13: 9780801861659 ISBN-10: 0801861659

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Johns Hopkins University Press

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paperback

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April 28, 1999

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1.6 lbs

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23.50×3.40×15.60 cm

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Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams: A History of America's Romance with Illegal Drugs by Jonnes, Jill. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780801861659.

"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 Jonness 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.