The Audacity of Dope
The Audacity of Dope

Author: Monte Dutton

Publisher: Neverland Publishing Co.

Published: 2011-10-31

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0982697112

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Riley Mansfield is not your typical hero. He writes songs for a living, smokes pot for recreation and just wants to live and let live. But when he foils an apparent terrorist plot to blow up a small plane over his hometown of Greenville, South Carolina, he is thrust into the spotlight, which is exactly where he doesn't want to be. Suddenly, everyone wants a piece of him, including both major political parties. They aren't willing to take no for an answer, partly because it's an election year and partly because what happened on the plane may be a bit more complicated than it appears. Emboldened by his own obstinacy, Mansfield and his girl Friday, Melissa Franklin, lead the government and the Republicans on a sometimes merry, sometimes painful, sometimes lucky chase. Along the way, they stumble across unlikely friends - a Democrat strategist, a Rolling Stone writer, a pair of sympathetic FBI agents - and ruthless enemies. Theirs is a love affair of sex, drugs and country-folk set against a backdrop of political scheming, hidden agendas and an unraveling plan to maintain control of the government. The American people deserve to know the truth, and it's up to Riley to tell them...if he can live long enough to get the chance.

Hopeless
Hopeless

Author: Jeffrey St. Clair

Publisher: AK Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1849351104

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The dissident Left dismantles Obama's failed "progressive" agenda.

The Iconic Obama, 2007-2009
The Iconic Obama, 2007-2009

Author: Nicholas A. Yanes

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 0786492694

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How is Barack Obama represented in popular culture? More than the United States' 44th president, he is also a lens through which we can examine politics, art, comics, and music in various contexts. The essays in this collection focus on the buildup to the 2008 election as well as Obama's first year as president, a brief historical moment in which "Obama" was synonymous with possibility. The contributors represent a variety of scholarly fields such as film, journalism, mass communication, popular culture and African American studies, each adding a unique perspective on Obama's relationship to American culture.

Heroin
Heroin

Author: Oren Elow

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2010-12-08

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1450258239

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Even though Oren Elow had never tried heroin, hed always heard that it was a gift from the goddess. So he didnt hesitate to try it when his buddies offered him his first hit of heroina hit that would make him a heroin slave and one that would define so many of his following years. In this memoir, Elow shares his lifes narrativefrom growing up in Louisiana with an alcoholic father and loving mother who later divorced, to his years on Bostons streets as a heroin addict, to his time spent behind bars for a variety of transgressions, and to the effect his addiction had on his wife and children. Through anecdotes and stories, Heroin addresses the stark realities of life as a junkie and a convict and provides insight into the mindset of an addict. Elow narrates a broad view of his lifefighting addiction and triumphing over it.

Social Networks, Drug Injectors’ Lives, and HIV/AIDS
Social Networks, Drug Injectors’ Lives, and HIV/AIDS

Author: Samuel R. Friedman

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-12-27

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0306471612

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Social Networks, Drug Injectors' Lives, and HIV/AIDS recognizes HIV as a socially structured disease - its transmission usually requires intimate contact between individuals - and shows how social networks shape high-risk behaviors and the spread of HIV. The authors recount the groundbreaking use of social network methods, ethnographic direct-observation techniques, and in-depth interviews in their study of a drug-using community in Brooklyn, New York. They provide a detailed documentary of the lives of community members. They describe drug-use, the affects of poverty and homelessness, the acquisition of money and drugs, and social relationships within the group. Social Networks, Drug Injectors' Lives, and HIV/AIDS shows that social networks and contexts are of crucial importance in understanding and fighting the AIDS epidemic. These findings should revitalize prevention efforts and reshape social policy.

Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll
Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll

Author: Robert C. Cottrell

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-03-19

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 1442246073

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Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n Roll: The American Counterculture of the 1960s offers a unique examination of the cultural flowering that enveloped the United States during that early postwar decade. Robert C. Cottrell provides an enthralling view of the counterculture, beginning with an examination of American bohemia, the Lyrical Left of the pre-WWII era, and the hipsters. He delves into the Beats, before analyzing the counterculture that emerged on both the East and West coasts, but soon cropped up in the American heartland as well. Cottrell delivers something of a collective biography, through an exploration of the antics of seminal countercultural figures Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Timothy Leary, and Ken Kesey. Cottrell also presents fascinating chapters covering “the magic elixir of sex,” rock ‘n roll, the underground press, Haight-Ashbury, the literature that garnered the attention of many in the counterculture, Monterey Pop, the Summer of Love, the Death of Hippie, the March on the Pentagon, communes, Yippies, Weatherman, Woodstock, the Manson family, the women’s movement, and the decade’s legacies.

Death Is Final but I Live On
Death Is Final but I Live On

Author: Martha

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2006-06-19

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 146781590X

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This book contains traumatic events ofa life that started tragically andcontinues positive. It was a death that opened the door for change in a life that had been dealt a negative start. Death can be tragic but it can also put an end to suffering and pain. When learning life's lessons, deathcan encourage an individual to make significant changes in life as well as chart a new course forcontinued living. Life can bedifficult andinteracting with people in general can make it more so. However, life'slessonsshould always be to learn something new, make positive changes and Live On!