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Documentaries
9 Murders a Day, produced by Charlie Minn (2011).
Bastards of the Party, produced by Alex Alonso and Lisa Caruso (2005).
Billie Holiday: Sensational Lady (BBC “Reputations” series), produced by David F. Turnbull (2001).
Cocaine Unwrapped, produced by Rachel Siefert (2011).
Dateline NBC: Inside Mexico’s Drug War, produced by Solly Granatstein and Rayner Ramirez (2011).
Endgame: AIDS in Black America, produced by Raney Aaronson (2012).
The Fix, produced by Nettie Wild and Betsy Carson (2012).
Gladiator Days, produced by Marc Levin (2002).
The House I Live In, produced by Eugene Jarecki (2013).
Jazz, directed by Ken Burns, produced by Wynton Marsalis (2000).
Nothing Personal, “Young Guns,” episode 5, produced by Steve Schirripa (2011).
Our Drug War, produced by Angus MacQueen (2011).
Pablo’s Hippos, produced by Lawrence Elman and Antonio Von Hildebrand (2010).
Return Engagement, directed by Alan Rudolf (1983).
Sins of My Father, directed by Nicolas Entel (2009).
Archives and Libraries
Harry Anslinger archives at Penn State University, Pennsylvania
George White archives at Stanford University, California
National Archives at San Francisco, California
Wellcome Trust Library, London
Federal Bureau of Narcotics archives, Virginia
New York Public Library, New York
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
British Library, London
Julia Blackburn Archives at Brotherton Library, University of Leeds
Public records office, Phoenix, Arizona
A Note on the Author
Johann Hari is a British journalist who has written for the New York Times, Le Monde, the Los Angeles Times, the Independent, the Guardian, Slate, the New Republic, and the Nation. He has reported from many countries, from the Congo to Venezuela. He was twice named Newspaper Journalist of the Year by Amnesty International UK, awarded the Martha Gellhorn Prize for turning political writing into an art, and later named Journalist of the Year by Stonewall. He can be followed on Twitter: @johannhari101.
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Hari, Johann.
Chasing the scream : the first and last days of the war on drugs / Johann Hari.—First U.S. edition.
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1. Drug control—United States—History. 2. Drug trade—United States—History. I. Title.
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