Agency of Fear: Opiates and Political Power in America

摘要: President Bush has made the war against drugs number one issue on contemporary American political agenda. In this revised edition of his classic book, available for first time in paperback, Edward Jay Epstein argues that president adopted strategy forbear, Richard Nixon, using to blame foreigners crisis America's cities, and provide a smokescreen unrelated activity designed bolster executive power. The crackdown seen an almost hundredfold increase federal budget narco-politics fifteen years since Agency Fear was published, while statistics drug-running have been massaged. points out that, despite massive budgets public relations brouhaha, drug importation, as measured wholesale price, fact grown.