Assassin of youth: a kaleidoscopic history of Harry J. Anslinger's war on drugs

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Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. The Trouble with Harry -- 2. In a Word -- 3. The Square Last Mentioned -- 4. Maybe Born in Bern -- 5. A Willing and Cheerful Obedience Thereto -- 6. To Prohibit Vice is Not Ordinarily Considered within the Police Power of the State -- 7. Now Building at Altoona -- 8. In All Cases of Doubt or Uncertainty -- 9. Alcohol is a Poison -- 10. The Narcotic Element is the Siren -- 11. Lotus Eaters: Whosoever -- 12. The Education of Harry Anslinger -- 13. Horseplay Turns to Tragedy -- 14. A High-Priced Man: So Stupid that the Word "Percentage" has no meaning to him -- 15. Keystone State of Mind -- 16. The Harrison Act -- 17. Becoming a Fed -- 18. Only Words from which there is no Escape: Jin Fuey Moy -- 19. Not One Minute Darkness -- 20. Within the Words -- 21. I Would Not Endeavor to Descrive -- 22. On the Basis of Science -- 23. Human Wreckage: Wally Reid -- 24. Lotus Eaters: In Dolce Far Niente -- 25. Linder v. United States (1925), or Vice Versa -- 26. A Set of False Teeth in its Stomach -- 27. Prohibition as Substance: Putting the Bureau in Bureaucracy -- 28. The Federal Bureau of Politics: With Camel Hair Glued Over Them -- 29. A Plastic Palimpsest -- 30. The Collected Stories of Harry J. Anslinger -- 31. Funking the Necessary Immigrations -- 32. The Marijuana Tax Act -- 33. The Unbridled Powers of a Czar -- 34. Anslinger Nation, or Double Agency -- 35. Fiction Alone has no Monopoly in this Field: Real Detective Stories -- 36. This Fellow Ought to be the Figment of Somebody's Imagination -- 37. In Doctor Nation -- 38. Spindoctrination -- 39. The World's Leading Authority -- 40. The Oriental Communists had a Twofold Purpose -- 41. Lotus Eaters: 1953, or the Imponderabilia of Actual Life -- 42. Dr. John Blank -- 43. Chasing the Ghostwriters -- 44. Every Inch a Man -- 45. Out with a Whimper -- Epilogue. Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. The Trouble with Harry -- 2. In a Word -- 3. The Square Last Mentioned -- 4. Maybe Born in Bern -- 5. A Willing and Cheerful Obedience Thereto -- 6. To Prohibit Vice is Not Ordinarily Considered within the Police Power of the State -- 7. Now Building at Altoona -- 8. In All Cases of Doubt or Uncertainty -- 9. Alcohol is a Poison -- 10. The Narcotic Element is the Siren -- 11. Lotus Eaters: Whosoever -- 12. The Education of Harry Anslinger -- 13. Horseplay Turns to Tragedy -- 14. A High-Priced Man: So Stupid that the Word "Percentage" has no meaning to him -- 15. Keystone State of Mind -- 16. The Harrison Act -- 17. Becoming a Fed -- 18. Only Words from which there is no Escape: Jin Fuey Moy -- 19. Not One Minute Darkness -- 20. Within the Words -- 21. I Would Not Endeavor to Descrive -- 22. On the Basis of Science -- 23. Human Wreckage: Wally Reid -- 24. Lotus Eaters: In Dolce Far Niente -- 25. Linder v. United States (1925), or Vice Versa -- 26. A Set of False Teeth in its Stomach -- 27. Prohibition as Substance: Putting the Bureau in Bureaucracy -- 28. The Federal Bureau of Politics: With Camel Hair Glued Over Them -- 29. A Plastic Palimpsest -- 30. The Collected Stories of Harry J. Anslinger -- 31. Funking the Necessary Immigrations -- 32. The Marijuana Tax Act -- 33. The Unbridled Powers of a Czar -- 34. Anslinger Nation, or Double Agency -- 35. Fiction Alone has no Monopoly in this Field: Real Detective Stories -- 36. This Fellow Ought to be the Figment of Somebody's Imagination -- 37. In Doctor Nation -- 38. Spindoctrination -- 39. The World's Leading Authority -- 40. The Oriental Communists had a Twofold Purpose -- 41. Lotus Eaters: 1953, or the Imponderabilia of Actual Life -- 42. Dr. John Blank -- 43. Chasing the Ghostwriters -- 44. Every Inch a Man -- 45. Out with a Whimper -- Epilogue. 46. Chasing the Ghost -- 47. Toward a Poetics of Drug Policy -- 48. Lotus Eaters: Charadrius Dubius -- Acknowledgments -- Backlit By -- Notes.