Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser
America's black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqu video, or pay our kids' nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation turns his exacting eye on the underbelly of the American marketplace and its far-reaching influence on our society. Exposing three American mainstays -- pot, porn, and illegal immigrants -- Eric Schlosser shows how the black market has burgeoned over the past several decades. He also draws compelling parallels between underground and overground: how tycoons and gangsters rise and fall, how new techonology shapes a market, how government intervention can reinvigorate black markets as well as mainstream ones, and how big business learns -- and profits -- from the underground.Reefer Madness is a powerful investigation that illuminates the shadow economy and the culture that casts that shadow.
Fast Food Nation and Reefer Madness, both New York Times bestsellers, were written by Eric Schlosser. The Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and The Nation have all published his writing.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780618334667 |
| ISBN 10 | 0618334661 |
| Title | Reefer Madness |
| Author | Eric Schlosser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
| Year published | 2003-05-08 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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