Book Reviews and Excerpts
TAKING THE BLAME
by Paul Foot, a review of Trail of the Octopus: From Beirut to Lockerbie—Inside the DIA by Donald Goddard with Lester Coleman, and The Media and Disasters: Pan-Am 103 by Joan Deppa with Maria Russell, Dona Hayes and Elizabeth Lynne Flocke.
THE BLACK CANDLE
by Judge Emily Murphy. Published in 1922, Murphy's amazingly inaccurate account of drug addiction has the power to amuse even today's most staunch prohibitionists through its overblown rhetoric, biased sources and totally unqualified claims. Reviewed by Nate Hendley.
CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM EATER
Thomas De Quincey. "Contemporary Lessons In An Old Classic,"
A review by Andrew Byrne, M.D.
DRUG WAR POLITICS
"The Price of Denial" By Eva Bertram, Morris Blachman, Kenneth Sharpe and Peter Andreas, Univ. of California Press, ISBN 0-0520-20598-7. Reviewed by Bill D'Amico.
DRUG WAR POLITICS - EXCERPT
"The Price of Denial" By Eva Bertram, Morris Blachman, Kenneth Sharpe and Peter Andreas, Univ. of California Press, ISBN 0-0520-20598-7. Table of Contents and Excerpt from the Preface.
DRUG WARRIORS AND THEIR PREY
"From Police Power to Police State." By Richard Lawrence Miller, Praeger Publishers, 1996. ISBN 0-275-95042-5. Reviewed by Peter Webster.
MARIJUANA LAW — Second Edition
By Richard Glen Boire, published by Ronin Publising, Inc., 1996. Reviewed by Jon Hanna.
THE NEW TEMPERANCE
"Holy Wars"—A review of David Wagner's The New Temperance: The American Obsession with Sin and Vice. By Peter Webster
ON DRUGS
By David Lenson, published by The University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
Reviewed by Richard Gehr.
THE PSYCHEDELIC SOURCEBOOK
By Will Beifuss, published by Rosetta/Flowers 1996. Reviewed by Steve Chambers.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS
"The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure" By Dan Baum, Little, Brown and Company 1996. ISBN 0-316-08412-3. Reviewed by Paul Wolf.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS
A review by John Leonard from the pages of The Nation, June 16, 1997
TIMOTHY LEARY: OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
"Appreciations, castigations, and reminiscences," edited by Robert Forte.
A review by Jon Hanna.
WE, THE JURY
"The Impact of Jurors on Our Basic Freedoms" by Godfrey Lehman. A review by Larry Dodge, co-founder,
Fully Informed Jury Association.