@article{913955,
      author = {Farber, David R.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/913955},
      title = {Crack : rock cocaine, street capitalism, and the decade of  greed /},
      abstract = {"A black man who had served almost a decade in the  penitentiary came home to the Southside of Chicago in the  mid-1980s. He watched young men-at first just a few- set up  shop on the corners in his neighborhood. They were selling  crack cocaine. He was tempted-to buy, to sell-but he  steered clear. Still, he understood the draw. From his own  younger days and from his years in prison, he knew the men  who organized the operations that moved the product from  wholesale purchase to hand-to-hand sale. In his estimation,  these were righteous men, men whose names he did not  discuss, knowing full well what it would mean if he used  their names with the wrong people. These were men that, he  understood, "had to make their choices. And they made 'em."  Improbably, given where they began, these men had made  money, lots of money, and not just for themselves. They  also made money for "the nation." That's how this  ex-offender, who had found a new religion behind prison  walls, thought of it"--},
      recid = {913955},
      pages = {x, 214 pages :},
}