Full name: Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography

Author: Dominic Streatfeild Year: 2001 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Politics, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780312422264 0312422261

The story of cocaine isn't just about crime and profit; it's about psychoanalysis, about empire building, about exploitation, emancipation, and, ultimately, about power. To tell the story of the twentieth century without reference to this drug and its contribution is to miss a vital and fascinating strand of social history. Streatfeild examines the story of cocaine from its first medical uses to the worldwide chaos it causes today. His research takes him from the arcane reaches of the British Library to the isolation cells of America's most secure prisons; from the crackhouses of New York to the jungles of Bolivia and Colombia. Similar books: A History of the World Since 9/11 by Dominic Streatfeild The Pursuit of Oblivion by Richard Davenport-Hines Can't Find My Way Home by Martin Torgoff Opium by Martin Booth Cannabis by Martin Booth Opium by Barbara Hodgson Forces of Habit by David T. Courtwright America the Beautiful by Ben Carson Fear by Bob Woodward Crisis of Character by Gary J. Byrne The Amateur by Edward Klein No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin Grant by Ron Chernow The Prime Ministers by Yehuda Avner East West Street by Philippe Sands Leadership by Doris Kearns Goodwin Destiny and Power by Jon Meacham Three Days in Moscow by Bret Baier The Gatekeepers by Chris Whipple Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore