David T Courtwright

Addicts Who Survived

An Oral History of Narcotic Use America, 1923-1965

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The authors employ the techniques of oral history to penetrate the world of the drug user, providing an engrossing portrait of life in the drug subculture during the 'classic' era of strict narcotic control.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Tennessee Press
• First Edition, First edition
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781572339378
• ISBN-10: 1572339373
• Artikelnr.: 36151859

Autorenporträt

David Courtwright is best known for his books on drug use and drug policy in American and world history (Dark Paradise, Addicts Who Survived, Forces of Habit, and The Age of Addiction) and for his books on the special problems of frontier environments (Violent Land and Sky as Frontier). He has also written a history of the culture war that engulfed America in the four decades after Nixon's 1968 election, No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America.