{"title":"Ryan Grim","description":"RYAN GRIM is the \"Huffington Post\"'s senior congressional correspondent and has written for \"Slate,\" \"Rolling Stone,\" \"Harper's,\" and the \"Washington Post.\"","products":[{"product_id":"this-is-your-country-on-drugs-the-secret-history-of-getting-high-in-america-paperback","title":"This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEverything we know about drugs-from acid to epidemics to DARE and salvia-turns out to be wrong\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStock up on munchies and line up your water bottles: journalist Ryan Grim will take you on a cross-country tour of illicit drug use in the U.S.-from the agony (the huge DEA bust of an acid lab in an abandoned missile silo in Kansas) to the ecstasy (hallucinogens at raves and music festivals). Along the way, Grim discovers some surprising truths. Did anti-drug campaigns actually encourage more drug use? Did acid really disappear in the early 2000s? And did meth peak years ago? Did our Founding Fathers-or, better yet, their wives-get high just as much as we do?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTraces the evolution of United States's long and twisted relationship with drugs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGives surprising answers to questions such as: how did heroin become popular, when did the meth epidemic peak, and has LSD gone the way of Quaaludes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBased on solid reporting and wide-ranging research-including surveys, reports, historical accounts, and more\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot since Eric Schlosser ventured underground to marijuana's black market in \u003ci\u003eReefer Madness\u003c\/i\u003e has a reporter trained such a keen eye on drugs and culture. A powerful and often shocking history of one of our knottiest social and cultural problems, \u003ci\u003eThis is Your Country on Drugs\u003c\/i\u003e leads you on a profound exploration of what it means to be an American.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA cornucopia of unconventional wisdom about our relationship to mind-altering substances.\u003cbr\u003e--Laura Miller, Salon.com \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A compulsively readable and revealing history of our torturous relationship to drugs.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Christopher Hayes, Washington Editor, \"The Nation\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Astonishingly clear-headed and well-written, as if someone had taken David Courtwright and added just a splash of Hunter Thompson.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Mark Kleiman, TPMCafe \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A wide-ranging, fascinating romp through the history of America's insatiable appetite for all manner of drugs, from opium to crystal meth, all the way up to the possibly soon-to-be-illegal hallucinogen \"Salvia divinorum.\"\"\u003cbr\u003e--\"Philadelphia City Paper\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDid anti-drug campaigns actually encourage more drug use? Did acid really disappear in the early 2000s? And did meth peak decades ago? Did our founding fathers--or their wives--get high just as much as we do?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs entertaining as it is informative, \"This Is Your Country on Drugs\" goes far beyond the usual \"war on drugs\" manifestos or reference books to bring a fresh perspective that will both enlighten the uninitiated and surprise the expert (however you define the term). Even-handed without being neutral, Grim brings more to the table than past histories by covering the who and the what so he can get to the \"why.\" Not only does Grim derive surprising conclusions from looking at consumption patterns throughout eras, he chronicles America's romance with getting high from founding father Benjamin Rush telling Lewis and Clark to bring along eight ounces of Turkish opium and thirty gallons of \"medicinal wine,\" to today's teenagers, who spend so much time alone online that they do far fewer drugs than any of their predecessors.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365989581023,"sku":"9780470643891","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/4-0gVJKMPd9780470643891.webp?v=1789077181"},{"product_id":"weve-got-people-from-jesse-jackson-to-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-end-of-big-money-and-the-rise-of-a-movement-paperback","title":"We've Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe've Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMovement is the first book-length treatment of the roots and rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, tracing the\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003emovement that propelled her back to the 1988 presidential campaign of Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCoalition -- a year before she was born. That campaign stunned the Democratic Party by coming within inches\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eof winning the nomination. One of the few white progressives to endorse the campaign early was Burlington\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMayor Bernie Sanders; Ocasio-Cortez, in 2016, would volunteer for his presidential campaign. Veterans of the\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSanders campaign then formed the organization that recruited Ocasio-Cortez to run for Congress, and backed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eher and her squad to the hilt. 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