Crack : rock cocaine, street capitalism, and the decade of greed / David Farber, University of Kansas.
Farber, David R., author.
2019
HV5810 .F37 2019 (Mapit)
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Title Crack : rock cocaine, street capitalism, and the decade of greed / David Farber, University of Kansas.
Author Farber, David R., author.
ISBN 9781108425278 (hardcover)
1108425275 (hardcover)
Published United Kingdom ; New York, NY : University Printing House, 2019.
Language English
Description x, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number HV5810 .F37 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.29/8097309048
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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