Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Document Retrieval Index
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of Official Publications of the State of New York
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Includes information from the Checklist of official publications of the State of New York.
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on the Judiciary
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 1596
Book Description
New Serial Titles
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1748
Book Description
A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.
Smack
Author: Eric C. SchneiderPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812203488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Why 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 1920s, heroin became associated with jazz musicians and Beat writers in the 1940s. 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 1960s and 1970s. 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.
The Trumps
Author: Gwenda BlairPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501139363
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The definitive family biography of President Donald Trump. The revealing story of the Trumps mirrors America’s transformation from a land of striving immigrants to a world in which the aura of wealth alone can guarantee a fortune. The Trumps begins with a portrait of President Trump’s immigrant grandfather, who as a young man built hotels for miners in Alaska during the Klondike gold rush. His son, Fred, took advantage of the New Deal, using government subsidies and loopholes to construct hugely successful housing developments in the 1940s and 1950s. The profits from Fred’s enterprises paved the way for President Trump’s roller-coaster ride through the 1980s and 1990s into the new century. With his talent for extravagant exaggeration—he calls it “truthful hyperbole”—President Trump turned the deal-making know-how of his forebears into an art form. By placing this much-publicized life within the context of family, Gwenda Blair adds a new dimension to the larger-than-life figure who ascended to the American Presidency.
Donald Trump
Author: Gwenda BlairPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743275101
Category : Businesspeople
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Presents a life of the New York real estate developer, discussing his turbulent business and personal life, his skills as a celebrity showman, and his recent role as the host of the reality TV show " The Apprentice."
Monthly Checklist of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift DivisionPublisher:
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Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
Annual Report of the Temporary Commission of Investigation of the State of New York to the Governor and the Legislature of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Temporary Commission of InvestigationPublisher:
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Category : Law enforcement
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Commerce
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1832
Book Description