What are the known facts about the 'dangerous' drugs? What actual harm, mental or physical, do they cause? Which of them are addictive, and how many addicts are there? Peter Laurie has talked with doctors, policemen, addicts, and others intimately involved with this problem. He has tried some of the drugs for himself and closely studied the medical literature (including little-known reports of American research). The result of his inquiries into the pharmacological uses and social effects of drugs today appears in this book. Originally published as a Penguin Special which went through five p...

A revelatory, minute-by-minute account of JFK’s final days that asks what might have been Fifty years after his assassination, President John F. Kennedy’s legend endures. Noted author and historian Thurston Clarke reexamines the last months of the president’s life to show a man in the midst of great change, both in his family and in the key issues of his day: the cold war, civil rights, and Vietnam, finally on the cusp of making good on his extraordinary promise. JFK’s Last Hundred Days presents a gripping account that weaves together Kennedy’s public and private lives, explains...

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