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050 00 $aHV5805.C48$bA65 1995
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100 1 $aAdler, William M.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94093345
245 10 $aLand of opportunity :$bone family's quest for the American dream in the age of crack /$cWilliam M. Adler.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAtlantic Monthly Press,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $axiv, 415 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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520 $aCrack is the scourge of our cities, but for some the business of crack is an opportunity too good to refuse. The Chambers brothers were perhaps Detroit's most successful entrepreneurs of the eighties, and they made their fortunes by applying strict business principles to the drug trade. In this harrowing and brilliantly rendered book, William Adler gives us a story whose significance transcends the true-crime genre.
520 8 $aLand of Opportunity is the first work of sustained narrative journalism to view America's drug epidemic within the complex social context of poverty and failed opportunity in which the American Dream still struggles to be born.
520 8 $aAlthough the crack epidemic has received extensive coverage over the last decade, much of the reporting has generated more heat than light. That crack is a scourge is clear from the lurid, sensationalized stories of crack-related crime and violence and the voyeuristic sketches of a day in the life of an addict. But most accounts completely ignore why crack distribution is for so many a rational career choice.
600 10 $aChambers, Billy Joe,$d1962-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94093648
600 30 $aChambers family.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85022433
650 0 $aDrug dealers$zUnited States$vBiography.
852 00 $bleh$hHV5805.C48$iA65 1995