The American Disease. Origins of Narcotic Control. CLOTHBOUND EDITION. FIRST EDITION.

MUSTO, David F.

ISBN 10: 0300015372 / ISBN 13: 9780300015379

Published by New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973.

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xiii, 354 pp. Original cloth. Vewry Good, in dust jacket (the dust jacket is not price-clipped!). First Edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The American Disease. Origins of Narcotic Control. CLOTHBOUND EDITION. FIRST EDITION.
• Publisher: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973.
• ISBN 10: 0300015372
• ISBN 13: 9780300015379
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

A study of the development of drug laws in the USA. Supporting the theory that Americans' attitudes toward drugs have followed a cyclic pattern of tolerance and restraint, author David Musto examines the relations between public outcry and the creation of prohibitive drug laws from the end of the Civil War to the present day.

Review

Musto makes a persuasive case for thoughtful deliberation when framing a policy against the use and abuse of drugs. He is a national asset. (the late Fred W. Friendly, former Director of Seminars on Media and Society, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.)

Mandatory reading....An important work of historical clarification....Musto tells a rich and significant story, enlivened by the foibles, myopia and hysteria of several generations of Americans, including this one. (The New York Times Book Review)

The best single text around on the evolution of our narcotics laws and the political and social climate that shaped them. (The Washington Post Book World)