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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.7 / 5.0

Loose Collection of Essays:

Hot on the heels of his massive success with the superb "Fast Food Nation," author Eric Schlosser has filled in the gap between it and his next project with "Reefer Madness." The book purports to explore the American underground economy, and Schlosser's preface tries to link the book's three sections together using that theme, but it ultimately doesn't come together as a cohesive whole. The three individual topics (the criminalization of marijuana, the exploitation of migrant farmworkers and the rise of... more info

three essays that should be invidual books, but worth readin:

After reading the fantastic book Fast Food Nation, I'm willing to read anything that Eric Schlosser publishes. When I heard what the subject matter was for his new book (pot, porn, and illegal labor) I wasn't that interested but I wanted to find out what Schlosser had to say. In the introduction, Schlosser writes that the book is made up of three essays that are mostly unrelated, but these essays were tied together with the idea of the American Underground Economy which pervades the book. Reefer Madness is... more info

more, please:

I now know more about drug and obscenity laws than I ever imagined I'd need the brain cell storage to accommodate ... and that's a peculiarly good thing. I came out of this book with a new set of unlikely personal heroes - men and women who first challenged the absurdly restrictive obscenity laws in order to make health and birth control information legal to ship through the US mail ... and even folks like the irrepressibly obnoxious Larry Flynt, who is in some respects our nation's last defense against... more info

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