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VERY SHORT LIST chose A Secret History of Coffee, Coca & Cola for the #1 Spot on their November 16 Food E-mailA Brain Pickings Favorite Food Book of 2012 and one of their Best Graphic Novels & Graphic Nonfiction of 2012Featured in Columbia College Today's Bookshelf section'A straight forward and accessible textCortés'highly detailed paintings call up concomitant issues and famous faces as wellIn dense passages describing political payments between corporate interests and federal narcotics officials, the reproductionin Cortés'deft watercolorsof memos, official letters, and newspaper articles serves as an indictment of the rule of law with loopholes for the profit minded. This is an excellent introduction to the complexities of'American interests,'the realities of corrupt rationale invoked in the pursuit of world health, and the need to take a longer view than the immediate to see how substance and substance abuse both share space and operate on different planes. Right and wrong are not black and white but form a gray of varying shades.'--Library JournalIf you hate the War on Drugs, Ricardo Cortés should be one of your favorite illustrators.”--ViceAstonishingly addictive and in

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Ricardo Cortés
Publisher
Akashic Books, Ltd.
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9781617751349
Category
history
Subjects
Political Science, Economics, Fiction
Rating
3.63 / 5 (63 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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