Land of Opportunity: One Family's Quest for the American Dream in the Age of Crack by Adler, William M.

Land of Opportunity: One Family's Quest for the American Dream in the Age of Crack

Part true crime, part work of urban sociology, Land of Opportunity is a meticulously researched account of...
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Author: William M. Adler
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Language: English
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Land of Opportunity: One Family's Quest for the American Dream in the Age of Crack by Adler, William M.

Land of Opportunity: One Family's Quest for the American Dream in the Age of Crack

BD$51.86

Land of Opportunity: One Family's Quest for the American Dream in the Age of Crack

BD$51.86
Author: William M. Adler
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Part true crime, part work of urban sociology, Land of Opportunity is a meticulously researched account of the rise and fall of the Chambers brothers, who ran a multi-million-dollar crack cocaine operation in Detroit in the 1980s. Descended from Arkansas sharecroppers, BJ, Larry, and Willie Chambers moved to Detroit seeking economic opportunity, and built a successful drug empire by applying strict business principles to their trade; their business grossed an estimated $55 million annually until the brothers were sent to prison in 1989. Reading the Chambers brothers in the context of the fall of the Detroit auto-industry and its impact on the city's economy and residents, Land of Opportunity demonstrates how for the Chambers brothers, crack dealing was a rational career choice; and through the Chambers brothers' story, Adler provides bottom-up history of late Second Great Migration, deindustrialization, the War on Drugs, and crack era in both Detroit and the United States.

Author: William M. Adler
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 10/11/2021
Pages: 394
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780472038633

About the Author

William M. Adler is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Esquire, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, and the Texas Observer. In addition to Land of Opportunity, he has written two other books of narrative nonfiction: Mollie's Job, which follows the flight of a single factory job from the US to Mexico over the course of fifty years; and The Man Who Never Died, a biography of the labor martyr Joe Hill.


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