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Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography
Cocaine An Unauthorized Biography
Author: Dominic Streatfeild
The story of cocaine isn’t just about crime and profit; it’s about psychoanalysis, about empire building, about exploitation, emancipation, and, ultimately, about power. To tell the story of the twentieth century without reference to this drug and its contribution is to miss a vital and fascinating strand of social history. Streatfei...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780312422264
ISBN-10: 0312422261
Publication Date: 7/1/2003
Pages: 528
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Publisher: Picador
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Very interesting history of cocaine & it's evolution.

Dominic Streatfield examines the story of cocaine from its first medical uses to the worldwide chaos it causes today. His research takes him from the arcane reaches of the British Library to the crack houses in NYC to the jungles of Peru and Colombia.


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