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Reefer Madness
by Schlosser, Eric
- Used
- Fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine in Archival Plastic Cover
- ISBN 10
- 0618334661
- ISBN 13
- 9780618334667
- Seller
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SANDY, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Co, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth & Boards. Fine/Fine in Archival Plastic Cover. A handsome First Edition, First Printing signed for Parrish Books by the author on the title page. By the author of "Fast Food Nation." In bright pink and gray cloth & boards, the book is clean and bright. The colorful dustjacket in red and yellow is complete and the original price ($23.00) is intact. Protected by an archival plastic dustjacket. Signed at a local booksigning,
Synopsis
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. The underground economy is vast; it comprises perhaps 10 percent -- perhaps more -- of America's overall economy, and it's on the rise. Eric Schlosser charts this growth, and finds its roots in the nexus of ingenuity, greed, idealism, and hypocrisy that is American culture. He reveals the fascinating workings of the shadow economy by focusing on marijuana, one of the nation's largest cash crops; pornography, whose greatest beneficiaries include Fortune 100 companies; and illegal migrant workers, whose lot often resembles that of medieval serfs. All three industries show how the black market has burgeoned over the past three decades, as America's reckless faith in the free market has combined with a deep-seated puritanism to create situations both preposterous and tragic. Through pot, porn, and migrants, Schlosser traces compelling parallels between underground and overground: how tycoons and gangsters rise and fall, how new technology shapes a market, how government intervention can reinvigorate black markets as well as mainstream ones, how big business learns -- and profits -- from the underground. With intrepid reportage, rich history, and incisive argument, Schlosser illuminates the shadow economy and the culture that casts that shadow.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parrish Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 781
- Title
- Reefer Madness
- Author
- Schlosser, Eric
- Format/Binding
- Cloth & Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine in Archival Plastic Cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0618334661
- ISBN 13
- 9780618334667
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2003
- LCCN
- 2002192164
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About the Seller
Parrish Books
Biblio member since 2006
SANDY, Oregon
About Parrish Books
Parrish Books is a full-time on-line dealer in fine collectible books in business since 2002. With specialities in signed limited editions and many favorite authors including Ray Bradbury, Richard Bach, Tom Clancy, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Edward Gorey and Maurice Sendak. We specialize in exceptional customer service and quality packaging of all orders.
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