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Barry Abrams
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Fifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a "War on Drugs", the United States government has spent more than a trillion dollars fighting a losing battle. In recent years, about 1.5 million people have been arrested annually on drug charges - most of them involving cannabis - and nearly 500,000 Americans are currently incarcerated for drug offenses. Today, as a response to the dire human and financial costs, Americans are fast losing their faith that a war on drugs is fair, moral, or effective.
In a rare multifaceted overview of the underground drug market, featuring historical and ethnographic accounts of illegal drug production, distribution, and sales, The War on Drugs: A History examines how drug-war policies contributed to the making of the carceral state, racial injustice, regulatory disasters, and a massive underground economy. At the same time, the collection explores how aggressive anti-drug policies produced a "deviant" form of globalization that offered economically marginalized people an economic lifeline as players in a remunerative transnational supply and distribution network of illicit drugs.
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Martin A. Lee traces the dramatic social history of marijuana, from its origins to its emergence in the 1960s as a defining force in a culture war that has never ceased. Lee describes how the illicit marijuana subculture overcame government opposition and morphed into a dynamic, multibillion-dollar industry. Colorful, illuminating, and at times irreverent, this is a fascinating listen for recreational users and patients, students and doctors, musicians and accountants, Baby Boomers and their kids, and anyone who has ever wondered about the secret life of this ubiquitous herb.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A hard book for me to rate
- De Blake en 05-08-13
De: Martin A. Lee
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A Narco History
- How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the “Mexican Drug War”
- De: Carmen Boullosa, Mike Wallace
- Narrado por: James Conlan
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 389
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 342
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 343
The term Mexican Drug War misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair. But this diverts attention from the US role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It's not just that Americans buy drugs from and sell weapons to Mexico's murderous cartels. It's that ever since the US prohibited the use and sale of drugs in the early 1900s, it has pressured Mexico into acting as its border enforcer - with increasingly deadly consequences.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting book, tricky pronunciation
- De Enrique en 12-24-18
De: Carmen Boullosa, y otros
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Smuggler Nation
- How Illicit Trade Made America
- De: Peter Andreas
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 15 h y 4 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
America is a smuggler nation. Our long history of illicit imports has ranged from West Indies molasses and Dutch gunpowder in the 18th century, to British industrial technologies and African slaves in the 19th century, to French condoms and Canadian booze in the early 20th century, to Mexican workers and Colombian cocaine in the modern era. Contraband capitalism, it turns out, has been an integral part of American capitalism.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Hidden Story of American History
- De Charlie Morton en 11-14-14
De: Peter Andreas
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The White Man's Burden
- Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
- De: William Easterly
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
In his previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly criticized the utter ineffectiveness of Western organizations to mitigate global poverty, and he was promptly fired by his then-employer, the World Bank. The White Man's Burden is his widely anticipated counterpunch - a brilliant and blistering indictment of the West's economic policies for the world's poor.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Bit Repetitive
- De Amazon Customer en 04-27-19
De: William Easterly
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The Third Revolution
- Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State
- De: Elizabeth C. Economy
- Narrado por: Jo Anna Perrin
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 259
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 234
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 224
Eminent China scholar Elizabeth C. Economy provides an incisive look at the transformative changes underway in China today. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has unleashed a powerful set of political and economic reforms: the centralization of power under Xi himself; the expansion of the Communist Party's role in Chinese political, social, and economic life; and the construction of a virtual wall of regulations to control more closely the exchange of ideas and capital between China and the outside world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A decent synopsis of Xi Jinping and his polices
- De Yoda en 04-29-19
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Blood Oil
- Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules That Run the World
- De: Leif Wenar
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 20 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 95
Natural resources empower the world's most coercive men. Autocrats like Putin and the Saudis spend oil money on weapons and repression. ISIS and Congo's militias spend resource money on atrocities and ammunition. For decades resource-fueled authoritarians and extremists have forced endless crises on the West - and the ultimate source of their resource money is us, paying at the gas station and the mall.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Caveat: Human beings -- Totally untrustworthy
- De lost the power cord could you send me another cord address 13 east wilmont ave somers point nj 08244 en 05-17-16
De: Leif Wenar
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48 Liberal Lies About American History
- (That You Probably Learned in School)
- De: Larry Schweikart
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 135
The problem isn’t that liberal authors present their opinions or interpretations of history from an obvious left-wing bias. Students learn, for example, that the Founding Fathers were elitists who drafted the Constitution in order to protect their own economic interests; that Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation only because he needed black soldiers; that racist groups such as the KKK represented our society in the early twentieth century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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amazingly accurate...
- De Anthony en 01-23-16
De: Larry Schweikart
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A Savage Order
- How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security
- De: Rachel Kleinfeld
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
From Georgia to Colombia to Ghana and Italy - crime exists in every democratic nation on earth, but in some places, it runs rampant, shaping all aspects of civic life. A Savage Order investigates why and how some places, riddled by inept government and states, are able to recover. Drawing on fifteen years of both academic and firsthand field research, Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld documents the unambiguous measures that societies have taken to empower the strong civic movements, governments, and institutions that protect countries and mitigate atrocities that damage people's lives.
De: Rachel Kleinfeld
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Cuba Libre
- A 500-Year Quest for Independence
- De: Philip Brenner, Peter Eisner
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 15 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
This timely book provides a balanced, deeply knowledgeable introduction to Cuba since 1492. Tracing the island's history over 500 years, the authors provide an incisive overview for anyone interested in exploring beyond the enduring stereotypes.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Lost Opportunity (and time)
- De Alexander Piquer en 05-04-18
De: Philip Brenner, y otros
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Reefer Madness
- Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
- De: Eric Schlosser
- Narrado por: Eric Schlosser
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 397
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 105
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 105
In Reefer Madness, the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation investigates America's black market and its far-reaching influence on our society through three of its mainstays - pot, porn, and illegal immigrants.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Investigative Journalism
- De Boulderite en 06-25-03
De: Eric Schlosser
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Golden Gulag
- Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
- De: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
- Narrado por: Machelle Williams
- Duración: 7 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Since 1980, the number of people in US prisons has increased more than 450 percent. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world". Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces conjoined to produce the prison boom.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Started off great but devolved into case study
- De normal person en 10-16-21
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Locked In
- The True Causes of Mass Incarceration - and How to Achieve Real Reform
- De: John F. Pfaff
- Narrado por: Graham Halstead
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 104
Locked In is a revelatory investigation into the root causes of mass incarceration by one of the most exciting scholars in the country. Having spent 15 years studying the data on imprisonment, John Pfaff takes apart the reigning consensus created by Michelle Alexander and other reformers, revealing that the most widely accepted explanations - the failed War on Drugs, draconian sentencing laws, an increasing reliance on private prisons - tell us much less than we think.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The true causes of Mass Incarceration
- De Ekaterinya Vladinakova en 04-17-20
De: John F. Pfaff
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The End of Power
- From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be
- De: Moises Naim
- Narrado por: Matt Kugler
- Duración: 12 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 48
In The End of Power, award-winning columnist and former Foreign Policy editor Moisés Naím illuminates the struggle between once-dominant megaplayers and the new micropowers challenging them in every field of human endeavor. Drawing on provocative, original research and a lifetime of experience in global affairs, Naím explains how the end of power is reconfiguring our world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Another Power book
- De Anonymous User en 04-12-24
De: Moises Naim
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Narconomics
- How to Run a Drug Cartel
- De: Tom Wainwright
- Narrado por: Brian Hutchison
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,762
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,296
What drug lords learned from big business. How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the $300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the best, of course. From creating brand value to fine-tuning customer service, the folks running cartels have been attentive students of the strategy and tactics used by corporations such as Walmart, McDonald's, and Coca-Cola.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worthy book in the "economics explains X" genre
- De A reader en 04-11-16
De: Tom Wainwright
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Impossible Subjects
- Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
- De: Mae M. Ngai
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 14 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in US immigration policy - a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the 20th century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent introduction to USA immigration
- De David en 03-17-23
De: Mae M. Ngai
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American Exception
- Empire and the Deep State
- De: Aaron Good
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 117
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 103
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 103
To trace the evolution of the American state, Aaron Good takes a deep-politics approach. The term “deep state” was badly misappropriated during the Trump era. In the simplest sense, it here refers to all those institutions that collectively exercise undemocratic power over state and society. To trace how we arrived at this point, American Exception explores various deep state institutions and history-making interventions.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I buy the premises, but not the conclusions...
- De Clark en 01-05-23
De: Aaron Good
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The Vory
- Russia's Super Mafia
- De: Mark Galeotti
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 349
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 312
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 309
Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western listeners can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, a group that has survived and thrived amid the changes brought on by Stalinism, the Cold War, the Afghan War, and the end of the Soviet experiment.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great
- De Kelli Sladick en 06-19-18
De: Mark Galeotti
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The War on Drugs
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- Max Power
- 07-10-22
Looking more for the gov's illegal part
So far this seems like a text book. A good deal of "Poor blacks." Very unentertaining. Lousy reader. Other than that, it's fine.
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