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The Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter expands upon, and offers new evidence to support, his claim--which touched off a firestorm of controversy--that the CIA and the Contra guerrillas fueled the crack trade in America's ghettos. 50,000 first printing. Tour. IP.
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An award-winning investigative reporter, GARY WEBB (1955–2004) is best known for his “Dark Alliance” series that linked a Northern California drug ring with the CIA and the United States’ burgeoning crack epidemic. When the story first appeared in 1996 on the website of the San Jose Mercury News, it became an unprecedented internet sensation, receiving up to 1.3 million hits daily. The report was the target of a famously vicious media backlash that ended his career as a mainstream journalist. When Webb told the whole story in the book Dark Alliance, some of the same publications that had vilified him retracted their criticism and praised his courage in telling the truth about one of the worst official abuses in our nation’s history. Others, including his own former newspaper and the New York Times, continued to treat him as an outlaw. Before joining theMercury News, Webb cut his journalism teeth at the Kentucky Post andCleveland Plain Dealer. He is the co-recipient of an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award (for a story at the Post about links between the Kentucky coal mining industry and organized crime) and a Pulitzer Prize (as part of a team at theMercury News covering the 1988 San Francisco Earthquake). Dark Alliance won the 1998 Firecracker Alternative Book Award in the Politics category, and was a finalist for the PEN/Newman’s Own First Amendment Award. In 2014 Webb’s story was adapted into the major motion picture Kill the Messenger. His death in 2004 was ruled a suicide.
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Gary Webb (1955 -2004) was a Pulitizer Prize-winning investigative journalist best known for his 1996 "Dark Alliance" series of articles written for the San Jose Mercury News and later published as a book. Webb investigated Nicaraguans linked to the CIA-backed Contras who smuggled cocaine into the U.S. that was distributed as crack in LA and funneled profits to the Contras.
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Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
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Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
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Seven Stories Press, New York, 1998
ISBN 10: 1888363681
ISBN 13: 9781888363685
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Printing. Signed and inscribed by Gary Webb upon half-title page. "Shows how the L.A. crack market flourished through a breathtaking combination of government negligence, greed, and criminal conduct. Demonstrates that U.S. government agencies, including the CIA, DEA and FBI, were aware of the activities of this well-connected drug network and did little or nothing to stop it. Indeed, in several instances documented here, the Justice Department, the CIA, and the secret National Security Council unit run by Oliver North, took extraordinary steps to protect the ring from public exposure. In the final chapters Webb reveals the conflict that led to his newspaper's stunning repudiation of its own series - and at what cost he stood by his story." - dust jacket. xxviii, 548 pages. Footnotes, glossary and index. Webb was found dead in his home in 2004 with two gunshot wounds to his head. Curiously, his death was ruled a suicide. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket preserved in glossy new archival-grade mylar. A quality signed example of this heroic work.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion Conspiracy California Los Angeles Habit Counterrevolutionaries Nicaragua United States Central Intelligence Agency Black African Americans Social Destruction Investigative Journalism; Signed by Author(s). Artikel-Nr. 163h1402
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