LEADER 04720nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910827477903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-0348-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203486 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418229 035 $a(OCoLC)859160783 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748495 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000967809 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11619228 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000967809 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10978191 035 $a(PQKB)10560591 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26831 035 $a(DE-B1597)449192 035 $a(OCoLC)979591870 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203486 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442106 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748495 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682407 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442106 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418229 100 $a20130712d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSmack $eheroin and the American city /$fEric C. Schneider 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (276 p.) 225 0$aPolitics and culture in modern America 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-51125-X 311 $a0-8122-2180-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [205]-244) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tINTRODUCTION: REQUIEM FOR THE CITY --$tCHAPTER ONE. New York and the Global Market --$tCHAPTER TWO. Jazz Joints and Junk --$tCHAPTER THREE. The Plague --$tCHAPTER FOUR. The Panic over Adolescent Heroin Use --$tCHAPTER FIVE. Ethnicity and the Market --$tCHAPTER SIX. The Rising Tide --$tCHAPTER SEVEN. Dealing with Dope --$tCHAPTER EIGHT. Heroin Suburbanizes --$tCHAPTER NINE. The War and the War at Home --$tCHAPTER TEN. From the Golden Spike to the Glass Pipe --$tCONCLUSION. Heroin Markets Redux --$tNOTES --$tINDEX --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS 330 $aWhy 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 cities throughout the country, generating vast sums of capital in return. Schneider uncovers how New York, as the principal distribution hub, organized the global trade in heroin and sustained the subcultures that supported its use. Through interviews with former junkies and clinic workers and in-depth archival research, Schneider also chronicles the dramatically shifting demographic profile of heroin users. Originally popular among working-class whites in the 1920's, heroin became associated with jazz musicians and Beat writers in the 1940's. Musician Red Rodney called heroin the trademark of the bebop generation. "It was the thing that gave us membership in a unique club," he proclaimed. Smack takes readers through the typical haunts of heroin users-52nd Street jazz clubs, Times Square cafeterias, Chicago's South Side street corners-to explain how young people were initiated into the drug culture. Smack recounts the explosion of heroin use among middle-class young people in the 1960's and 1970's. It became the drug of choice among a wide swath of youth, from hippies in Haight-Ashbury and soldiers in Vietnam to punks on the Lower East Side. Panics over the drug led to the passage of increasingly severe legislation that entrapped heroin users in the criminal justice system without addressing the issues that led to its use in the first place. The book ends with a meditation on the evolution of the war on drugs and addresses why efforts to solve the drug problem must go beyond eliminating supply. 410 0$aPolitics and culture in modern America. 606 $aDrug control$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aDrug traffic$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aMinorities$xSubstance use$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aHeroin abuse$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aDrug control$xHistory. 615 0$aDrug traffic$xHistory. 615 0$aMinorities$xSubstance use$xHistory. 615 0$aHeroin abuse$xHistory. 676 $a362.29/320973 700 $aSchneider$b Eric C.$f1951-$01266322 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827477903321 996 $aSmack$94051682 997 $aUNINA