Smack: Heroin and the American City

by Eric C. Schneider

Book Overview

Why do the vast majority of heroin users live in cities? In his provocative history of heroin in the United States, Eric C. Schneider explains what is distinctively urban about this undisputed king of underworld drugs.

During the twentieth century, New York City was the nation's heroin capital--over half of all known addicts lived there, and underworld bosses like Vito Genovese, Nicky Barnes, and Frank Lucas used their international networks...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812241169
• ISBN13: 9780812241167
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"