[FRIAM] New book by Mike Agar

[Douglas Roberts]

So, Mike.  Just how autobiographical is the book?

;-}

--Doug

On 10/3/06, Michael Agar <magar at anth.umd.edu> wrote:
>
> Thanks guys. Soon to be featured on remainder tables in a convenience
> store near you.
>
> On Oct 3, 2006, at 12:40 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
>
> Wow, that's cool!  Congrats, Mike!
>
> --Doug
>
> On 10/3/06, Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at redfish.com > wrote:
> >
> > Hey, I just noticed on Amazon that Mike's new book is out!
> > http://tinyurl.com/ogn79
> >
> > Book Description:
> > Dope Double Agent is a war on drugs story, one that starts in the 60s
> > and only
> > ends with the last lines of the book. More than this, it is the story of
> > a young
> > Berkeley student--and occasional drug user--who turns into an insider
> > expert in
> > the drug war with a personal agenda to subvert and correct it. He checks
> > in as a
> > heroin patient, works the streets of New York, dips into worlds of PCP
> > and LSD,
> > and seeks the sources of crack, heroin and ecstasy. The delusions of the
> > experts, the public and the politicians amaze him and make him think the
> > double
> > agent job will be easy. Instead it is impossible. He fails,
> > spectacularly so on
> > such hallowed ground as the National Academy of Sciences and the
> > National
> > Institutes of Health. Come behind the scenes and watch the drug policy
> > emperor
> > march along for decades thinking he wears a new suit of clothes.
> >
> > It looks like it is a little cheaper on Lulu Press.
> > http://tinyurl.com/eqlku
> >
> > -Steve
> >
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