Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure

Dan Baum

Back Bay Books

1997

416 páginas

13h 52m

ISBN-13: 9780316084468

In a blistering expose based on interviews with policy makers and a catalog of damning statistics, journalist Dan Baum shows how America's war on drugs went from a politically potent campaign play to today's multibillion-dollar government boondoggle--a "war" that's run roughshod over Constitutional rights and put a quarter of young black men behind bars without so much as denting the demand for drugs.