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Paperback The American Pipe Dream: Performance of Drug Addiction, 1890-1940 Book

ISBN: 1609388453

ISBN13: 9781609388454

The American Pipe Dream: Performance of Drug Addiction, 1890-1940

The American Pipe Dream examines the many iterations of addiction as it was performed over the first half of the twentieth century, working from a massive archive of previously ignored material. Because the stage-addict became the primary way the U.S. public learned about addiction and drug use, Shulman argues that performance was essential in creating the addict in America's cultural imagination. He demonstrates how modern-day perceptions...

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