Agency of fear: Opiates and political power in America - Hardcover

Epstein, Edward Jay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399116567 ISBN 13: 9780399116568

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1977

Synopsis

President Bush has made the war against drugs the number one issue on the contemporary American political agenda. In this revised edition of his classic book, available for the first time in paperback, Edward Jay Epstein argues that the president has adopted the strategy of his forbear, Richard Nixon, in using the drugs war to blame foreigners for the crisis in America's cities, and to provide a smokescreen for unrelated political activity designed to bolster executive power. The drugs crackdown has seen an almost hundredfold increase in the federal budget for narco-politics in the fifteen years since Agency of Fear was first published, while statistics on drug-running have been massaged. Epstein points out that, despite the massive budgets and public relations brouhaha, drug importation, as measured against wholesale price, has in fact grown.

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About the Author:

Edward Jay Epstein is the author of ten books including deception: The Invisible War between the CIA and KGB, The rise and Fall of Diamonds, Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth and News From Nowhere.

About this edition

• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0399116567
• ISBN 13: 9780399116568
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1