Writing on Drugs
by Sadie Plant
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Author: Sadie PlantEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown)
Published: 2001-07-09
ISBN: 0571203388
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Faber and Faber
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Book Review: An exciting and thought provoking piece of work
Summary: 5 Stars
I do not intend to enter into long and drawn out words to express the benefit that reading this book has supplied. Being a research student I have been both stimulated and encouraged by what Plant has written that is without the normal pretentious blurb that often accompanies any writing that gives focus to drug issues. Plant travels with remarkable style, humour and engaging thought through the history of drug use showing that the very foundations of some of what society takes for granted has been deeply influenced by drug use. Plant demonstrates that the traditions of philosophy, politics, art, music and even social change have all had their fingers in the drugs pie. For instance Plant spends times locating the drug habits of Freud and goes further to chart both Hitler and Churchill as drug users. The CIA and their involvement in the distribution of LSD in the 50s and 60s are all revealing and compelling insights into the drug world. It has been a real pleasure to at last read work that looks to strip common ideas to the very basis of origin. If you have an interest in drug issues or indeed in a branch of history where all too often knowledge is hidden or repressed then this is a book to read. Great stuff.
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