Drug Wars in America, 1940-1973

Informationen zum Autor Kathleen J. Frydl is the author of The G.I. Bill (Cambridge University Press, 2009), which won the 2010 Louis Brownlow Book Award from the National Academy of Public Administration. She received a fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Center to support her research for this book. Klappentext Examines how and why the US government went from regulating illicit drug traffic and consumption to declaring war on both. Zusammenfassung The Drug Wars in America! 1940-1973 argues that the US government has clung to its militant drug war! despite its obvious failures! because effective control of illicit traffic and consumption were never the critical factors motivating its adoption in the first place. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. 1940-60: Preface; Introduction; 1. Trade in war; 2. Presumptions and pretense: international trade in narcotics; 3. 'A society which requires some sort of sedation': domestic drug consumption, circulation, and perception; Part II. 1960-73: 4. Review and reform: the Kennedy commission; 5. Police and clinics: enforcement and treatment in the city, 1960-73; 6. The cost of denial: Vietnam and the global diversity of the drug trade; Conclusion: war on trade.

Summary

The Drug Wars in America, 1940–1973 argues that the US government has clung to its militant drug war, despite its obvious failures, because effective control of illicit traffic and consumption were never the critical factors motivating its adoption in the first place.

Product details

• Authors: Kathleen Frydl, Kathleen J. Frydl, Frydl Kathleen J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2013
• EAN: 9781107013902
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01390-2
• No. of pages: 458
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Drug & substance abuse: social aspects, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Drugs and alcohol: social aspects