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"A classic, as fine a history of America's experience with illegal drugs as we are likely to see and a delight to read. The author writes with such pace and excitement that you cannot wait to find out what's on the next page... put Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe-Dreams in your permanent collection."
-Joseph A. Califano Jr., America"Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe-Dreams tracks the colorful careers of movie stars and street junkies, drug traffickers and federal agents, to document journalist Jill Jonnes's chillingly plausible thesis: that drug abuse is as much a part of our national heritage as Mom, the flag, and apple pie... Jonnes's book is lively, anecdotal, and entertaining - until we stop to consider the reality of a substance abusing nation."
-Francine Prose, Elle"There is no other book that affords so detailed and well documented a history of illegal drugs in the United States since 1885... a richly detailed and textured history."
-Dwight B. Heath, Addiction"This fine book will stand for some time as the standard reference on the subject. The most complete and comprehensive work of its kind, Hep-cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams is one heckuva good read. Jill Jonnes has simply done a superb job of crafting this immense and important story of America's drug wars."
-Jeff Leen, co-author of Kings of Cocaine
Once upon a time in America, morphine and cocaine were routinely sold in pharmacies, and "hop-heads" gathered in shadowy basements to smoke opium. So begins Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams, Jill Jonnes's ground-breaking history of illegal drugs in America. Jonnes vividly traces our first turn-of-the-century drug epidemic, successfully quelled, and then follows the story into the post-war era: starting in the jazz world of the northern cities and moving though the "flower power" 1960's to the cocaine and crack explosions of the 1980's and 1990's. |