Hard Time Blues: How Politics Built a Prison Nation Tapa dura - 2002

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New York: Thomas Dunne / St. Martin's. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 2002. 2nd prt.. hardcover. 8vo, 284 pp. .

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Thomas Dunne Books, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good. 6x1x9. Signed by Author. Inscribed "To Larry, With many good wishes. Sasha Abramsky". Hard Time Blues weaves together the story of the growth of the American prison system over the past quarter century primarily through the story of Ochoa, a career criminal who grew up in the barrios of post-World War Two L.A. Ochoa, who had a long history of non-violent crimes committed to fund his drug habit, who cycled in and out of prison since the late 1960's, is a perfect example of how perennial misfits, rather than blood-soaked violent criminals, make up the majority of America's prisoners. This is also the story of the burgeoning careers of politicians such as former California Governor Pete Wilson, who rose to power on the "crime issue." Wilson, whose grandfather was a cop murdered by drug-runners in early twentieth century Chicago, scored a stunning come-from-behind re-election victory in 1994. In so doing,… Leer más

New York: Thomas Dunne Books, [2002]. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. xx, 284 pp. Bound in blue boards, illustrated dust jacket. Includes bibliography and index. Fine in Fine dust jacket.

New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 2002. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xx, 284 pages. Includes Acknowledgments, Introduction, Prologue. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Sasha Abramsky (born 4 April 1972) is a British-born Jewish freelance journalist and author who now lives in the United States. His work has appeared in The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, New York, The Village Voice, and Rolling Stone. He is a senior fellow at the American liberal think tank Demos, and a lecturer in the University of California, Davis's University Writing Program. He received a B.A. from Balliol College, Oxford in politics, philosophy and economics in 1993. He then traveled to the United States, where he earned a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[1][4] In 2000, he received a Crime and Communities Media Fellowship from the Open Society Foundations. This work weaves together the story of the growth of the American prison system over the… Leer más