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Agency of Fear: Opiates and Political Power in America (Rev)

By Edward Jay Epstein

Book information

Publisher
Verso
Year
1990
ISBN
9780860915294, 0860915298
LCC
HV5825 .E55 1990
Open Library ID
OL1884063M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
531 kB (543921 bytes)
Edition
Revised
Pages
149\149
Topic
Literature Prose
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04
Библиотека;Зарубежная литература;На английском язы

Description

President Bush has made the war against drugs the number one issue on the contemporary American political agenda. In this revised edition of his classic book, available for the first time in paperback, Edward Jay Epstein argues that the president has adopted the strategy of his forbear, Richard Nixon, in using the drugs war to blame foreigners for the crisis in America's cities, and to provide a smokescreen for unrelated political activity designed to bolster executive power. The drugs crackdown has seen an almost hundredfold increase in the federal budget for narco-politics in the fifteen years since Agency of Fear was first published, while statistics on drug-running have been massaged. Epstein points out that, despite the massive budgets and public relations brouhaha, drug importation, as measured against wholesale price, has in fact grown.

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