Smack: Heroin and the American City (Politics and Culture in Modern America) Reviews

Published August 27, 2010

Smack: Heroin and the American City (Politics and Culture in Modern America)

ISBN13: 9780812241167
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Why do the vast majority of heroin users live in cities? In his provocative history of heroin in the United States, Eric C. Schneider explains what is distinctively urban about this undisputed king of underworld drugs.

During the twentieth century, New York City was the nation’s heroin capital—over half of all known addicts lived there, and underworld bosses like Vito Genovese, Nicky Barnes, and Frank Lucas used their international networks to import and distribute the drug to citie

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