Smack: Heroin and the American City (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (731 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081222180X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Worth the read" according to Midwest Book Review. "Smack: Heroin and the American City" tells the story of heroin in America and its influence in the world of underworld narcotics. Filled with personal research and interviews with experts as well as former users, "Smack" traces the drug's long history and tells the intriguing story of the city drug. To anyone intrigued by the history of heroin in America, "Smack" is worth the read.. Mark J. Stern said Heroin and the city. Schneider's book combines a wealth of insights into the history of drug use with a thoughtful analysis of its uniquely "urban" quality. I recommend this book for anyone interested in "Heroin and the city" according to Mark J. Stern. Schneider's book combines a wealth of insights into the history of drug use with a thoughtful analysis of its uniquely "urban" quality. I recommend this book for anyone interested in 20th (or 21st) century urban history.. 0th (or "Heroin and the city" according to Mark J. Stern. Schneider's book combines a wealth of insights into the history of drug use with a thoughtful analysis of its uniquely "urban" quality. I recommend this book for anyone interested in 20th (or 21st) century urban history.. 1st) century urban history.. "School Product" according to Olivia. Received on time for my class.Enjoyed it somewhatNeeded it for school
It became the drug of choice among a wide swath of youth, from hippies in Haight-Ashbury and soldiers in Vietnam to punks on the Lower East Side. Originally popular among working-class whites in the 1920s, heroin became associated with jazz musicians and Beat writers in the 1940s. Why do the vast majority of heroin users live in cities? In his provocative history of heroin in the United States, Eric C. "It was the thing that gave us membership in a unique club," he proclaimed. Schneider uncovers how New York, as the principal distribution hub, organized the global trade in heroin and sustained the subcultures that supported its use.Through interviews with former junkies and clinic workers and in-depth archival research, Schneider also chronicles the dramatically shifting demographic profile
. Rather than treating the city as a "backdrop," Schneider interprets cities as "the organizers of the world opium market," and meticulously traces heroin's ascendancy from early 20th century opium dens to the 1920s jazz milieu and into the suburbs of the late 20th century suburbs when heroin finally attracted the attention of mainstream media. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. But as people migrated, so did the drug, and Schneider expertly shows that the fusion of the counterculture and increasing urban blight helped drive heroin into white middle class neighborhoods. He identifies cities, most notably New York, as hubs of heroin distribution, where residents often futilely attempted to save their neighborhoods from further loss of capital investment and migration to the suburbs. All rights reserved. At
. Eric C. Schneider is Adjunct Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings: Youth Gangs in Postwar New York