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Indlæser... Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion (udgave 1999)af Gary Webb (Forfatter), Maxine Waters (Forord)
Værk informationDark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion af Gary Webb
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. https://reason.com/1999/01/01/hooked-on-fantasies/ OK, it's fantastic. I've only given it 3 stars because I got lost in the detail and often lost the bigger picture. 3-stars is still a great book. Vast amounts of detail, hair raising and brain twisting corruption, incompetence and ... cocaine & crack selling. If you already know something about this story then this would be a truly great read. Gary Webb was a consummate snoop who finally got his nose into a thing that was big enough to defy coherent description. This reader is now 250 pages into "Dark Alliance" and, as I write, I'm utterly at sea regarding who's who and what's what and whodunit, etc. The thing is so big -- it involves so many people, governments, nations -- that the number of characters and places make the story too complex to follow. Webb went ahead with it regardless. Put another way, the book reads like it was written for a prosecuting attorney and a grand jury -- and maybe it was so in fact. That would explain why Gary Webb was found dead, with two bullet holes in the back of his head, and a coroner's contemptibly ludicrous decision was that the victim was a "suicide by multiple, self-inflicted gunshot wounds." Of one thing, I am certain: Gary Webb's treatment by his employers and fellow journalists is proof positive that the United States is no longer a free country. The American people are left to learn for themselves that two fragments of the English language are absolutely antithetical: they are "democracy" and "secret police". We can have one or the other but we cannot have both. If we persist in trying, the nation will perish with us.
"…a densely researched, passionately argued, acronym-laden 548-page volume." "I find his argument to be very well documented, very careful and very convincing. In fact, the readability of the book suffers a bit from what seems to have been a fear that if he didn't include absolutely every bit of evidence he had unearthed, he would open himself up to new criticisms of inadequate reporting—but this editor's quibble shouldn't stop anyone from buying and reading Dark Alliance. Long-time followers of the contra tale are likely to find new revelations in the book…"
Henvisninger til dette værk andre steder. Wikipedia på engelsk (19)"Presents the results of journalist Gary Webb's investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in South Central Los Angeles--a story that cost him his job after he uncovered evidence that links the U.S. government and the CIA-backed Nicaraguan contras with drug profits"-- Ingen biblioteksbeskrivelser fundet. |
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