When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

by Donovan X. Ramsey

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - A "vivid and frank" (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a community's ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic

"A master class in disrupting a stubborn narrative, a monumental feat for the fraught subject of addiction in Black communities."--The Washington Post

"A poignant and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525511806
• ISBN13: 9780525511809
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: One World
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"