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The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts

Door Nancy Campbell e.a.

Categorie	Geschiedenis Noord-Amerika
Boeknummer	#407679-LI19
Titel	The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts
Auteur	Campbell, Nancy & J. P. Olsen & Luke Walden
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York, NY : Harry N. Abrams
Jaar van uitgave	2008
ISBN10	0810972867
ISBN13	9780810972865
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Originele hardcover, stofomslag, geïllustreerde schutbladen, geïllustreerd met foto's, 4to.
Samenvatting	"From its opening in 1935. the United States Narcotic Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, epitomized the nation's ambivalence about how to deal with drug addiction. On the one hand, it functioned as a compassionate and humane hospital, an "asylum on the hill" on 1,000 acres of farmland where addicts could recover from their drug habits. On the other hand, it was an imposing federal prison built for the incarceration of drug addicts." ""Narco," as it was known, was a strange anomaly, a coed institution where federal convicts did time alongside volunteers who checked themselves in for rehabilitation. It became the world's epicenter for drug treatment and addiction research. For forty years it was the gathering place for this country's growing drug subculture, a ri... (Lees verder)te of passage that initiated famous jazz musicians, drug-abusing MDs, street hustlers, and drugstore cowboys into the new fraternal order of the American junkie." "The Narcotic Farm tells the story of the institution's noble rise and tumultuous fall, and includes rare and unpublished photographs, film stills, newspaper and magazine clippings, government documents, as well as recollections from the prisoners, doctors, and staff who lived and worked there."--BOOK JACKET.
Pagina's	207
Conditie	Goed — Partly removed sticker front cover dust jacket; permanent marker dot marking bottom cut.
Prijs	€ 12,50

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