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The Narcotic Farm - The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts (Hardcover): Nancy D. Campbell, James P... The Narcotic Farm - The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts (Hardcover)
Nancy D. Campbell, James P Olsen, Luke Walden, Sam Quinones
R761 Discovery Miles 7 610 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

From 1935 until 1975, just about every junkie busted for dope went to the Narcotic Farm. Equal parts federal prison, treatment center, farm, and research laboratory, the Farm was designed to rehabilitate addicts and help researchers discover a cure for drug addiction. Although it began as a bold and ambitious public works project, and became famous as a rehabilitation center frequented by great jazz musicians among others, the Farm was shut down forty years after it opened amid scandal over its drug-testing program, which involved experiments where inmates were being used as human guinea pigs and rewarded with heroin and cocaine for their efforts. Published to coincide with a documentary to be aired on PBS, The Narcotic Farm includes rare and unpublished photographs, film stills, newspaper and magazine clippings, government documents, as well as interviews, writings, and anecdotes from the prisoners, doctors, and guards that trace the Farm's noble rise and tumultuous fall, revealing the compelling story of what really happened inside the prison walls.

Dreamland - The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Paperback): Sam Quinones Dreamland - The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Paperback)
Sam Quinones
R396 R325 Discovery Miles 3 250 Save R71 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
The Least of Us - True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth (Paperback): Sam Quinones The Least of Us - True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth (Paperback)
Sam Quinones
R483 R384 Discovery Miles 3 840 Save R99 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tell Your True Tale - East Los Angeles (Paperback): Jian Huang, Cj Salgado, Sam Quinones Tell Your True Tale - East Los Angeles (Paperback)
Jian Huang, Cj Salgado, Sam Quinones
R156 Discovery Miles 1 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tell Your True Tale - 25 Greatest Hits! (Paperback): Sam Quinones Tell Your True Tale - 25 Greatest Hits! (Paperback)
Sam Quinones
R220 Discovery Miles 2 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tell Your True Tale - East Los Angeles: Volume 5 (Paperback): Sam Quinones Tell Your True Tale - East Los Angeles: Volume 5 (Paperback)
Sam Quinones
R178 Discovery Miles 1 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tell Your True Tale - Sunkist/La Puente: Volume 6 (Paperback): Jian Huang, Peggy Adams, Sam Quinones Tell Your True Tale - Sunkist/La Puente: Volume 6 (Paperback)
Jian Huang, Peggy Adams, Sam Quinones
R178 Discovery Miles 1 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tell Your True Tale - East Los Angeles: Volume 5 (Paperback): Sam Quinones Tell Your True Tale - East Los Angeles: Volume 5 (Paperback)
Sam Quinones
R178 Discovery Miles 1 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Least of Us - True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth (Hardcover): Sam Quinones The Least of Us - True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth (Hardcover)
Sam Quinones
R517 Discovery Miles 5 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
True Tales from Another Mexico - The Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino and the Bronx (Paperback): Sam Quinones True Tales from Another Mexico - The Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino and the Bronx (Paperback)
Sam Quinones
R897 Discovery Miles 8 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As journalist Sam Quinones convincingly demonstrates, much of Mexico was already changing before the July 2000 presidential elections which ousted the PRI and presented the world with President-elect Vincente Fox. Fox's victory marked the triumph of another Mexico, a vital, energetic, and creative Mexico tracked by Quinones for over six years.

"This side of Mexico gets very little press. . . . yet it is the best of the country. . . . people who have the spunk to imagine something else and instinctively flee the enfeebling embrace of PRI paternalism. . . . newly realistic telenovellas show the gray government censor that the country is too lively to abide his boss's dictates. . . . Some twelve million Mexicans reside year-round in the United States. . . . [so] the United States is now part of the Mexican reality and is where this other side of Mexico is often found, reinventing itself."--from the introduction.

Quinones merges keen observation with astute interviews and storytelling in his search for an authentic modern Mexico. He finds it in part in emigrants, people who use wits and imagination to strike out on their own. In poignant stories from north of the border--about Oaxacan basketball leagues in southern California and the late singing legend Chalino SAAA1/2nchez whose songs of drug smugglers spurred the popularity of the narcocorrido--Quinones shows how another Mexico is reinventing itself in America today. But most of his stories are from deep inside Mexico itself. There a dynamic sector exists. It is made up of those who instinctively shunned the enfeebling embrace of the PRI's paternalism, including scrappy entrepreneurs such as the Popsicle Kings of Tocumbo and Indianmigrant farmworkers who found a future in the desert of Baja California. Here, too, are true tales from ignored margins of society, including accounts of drag queens and lynchings. From the fringes of the country, Quinones suggests, emerge some of the most telling and central truths about modern Mexico and how it is changing.

"This book expands our knowledge of modern Mexico many times over. Quinones unearths a wealth of material that has in fact gone unnoticed or been hidden."--Professor Francisco Lomeli, University of California, Santa Barbara

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