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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
by Schlosser, Eric
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- Hardcover
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- Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscribed on half-title. DJ has slight wear and soiling, with some wear at
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- 0618334661
- ISBN 13
- 9780618334667
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Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. Reprint. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscribed on half-title. DJ has slight wear and soiling, with some wear at the bottom of the back of the DJ.. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. [10], 310 p. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. From Wikipedia: "Eric Matthew Schlosser (born August 17, 1959) is an American journalist and author known for investigative journalism, such as in his books Reefer Madness and Command and Control. Schlosser studied American History at Princeton University and earned a graduate degree in British Imperial History from Oxford. Schlosser started his career as a journalist with The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts. He quickly gained recognition for his investigative pieces, earning two awards within two years of joining the staff; he won the National Magazine Award for reporting for his two-part series "Reefer Madness" and "Marijuana and the Law" and he won the Sidney Hillman Foundation award for his article, "In the Strawberry Fields". He has also written the 2003 book Reefer Madness, a three part book that discusses the history and current trade of marijuana, the use of migrant workers in California strawberry fields, and the American pornography industry and its history."
Synopsis
In Reefer Madness, the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation investigates America's black market and its far-reaching influence on our society through three of its mainstays -- pot, porn, and illegal immigrants. The underground economy is vast; it comprises perhaps 10 percent -- perhaps more -- of America's overall economy, and it's on the rise. Eric Schlosser charts this growth, and finds its roots in the nexus of ingenuity, greed, idealism, and hypocrisy that is American culture. He reveals the fascinating workings of the shadow economy by focusing on marijuana, one of the nation's largest cash crops; pornography, whose greatest beneficiaries include Fortune 100 companies; and illegal migrant workers, whose lot often resembles that of medieval serfs. All three industries show how the black market has burgeoned over the past three decades, as America's reckless faith in the free market has combined with a deep-seated puritanism to create situations both preposterous and tragic. Through pot, porn, and migrants, Schlosser traces compelling parallels between underground and overground: how tycoons and gangsters rise and fall, how new technology shapes a market, how government intervention can reinvigorate black markets as well as mainstream ones, how big business learns -- and profits -- from the underground. With intrepid reportage, rich history, and incisive argument, Schlosser illuminates the shadow economy and the culture that casts that shadow.
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- Title
- Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
- Author
- Schlosser, Eric
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscribed on half-title. DJ has slight wear and soiling, with some wear at
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint. Second printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 0618334661
- ISBN 13
- 9780618334667
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 2003
- LCCN
- 2002192164
- Keywords
- Reefer, Marijuana, Anti-drug, Pornography, Obscenity, Heroin, Law Enforcement, Charles Keating, Migrant, Organized Crime, Hard-core, Richard Rosfelder, Reuben Sturman, Mark Young, Sentencing, Asset-forfeiture
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