{"product_id":"dark-alliance-movie-tie-in-edition-the-cia-the-contras-and-the-crack-cocaine-explosion-9781609806217","title":"Dark Alliance: Movie Tie-In Edition: The Cia, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion","description":"\"Presents the results of journalist Gary Webb's investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in South Central Los Angeles-- a story that cost him his job after he uncovered evidence that links the U.S. government and the CIA-backed Nicaraguan contras with drug profits\"--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gary Webb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seven Stories Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 592\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.65w x 1.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781609806217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn award-winning investigative reporter, \u003cb\u003eGARY WEBB\u003c\/b\u003e (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 \u003ci\u003eSan Jose Mercury News\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eDark Alliance\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, continued to treat him as an outlaw. Before joining the \u003ci\u003eMercury News\u003c\/i\u003e, Webb cut his journalism teeth at the \u003ci\u003eKentucky Post\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 the \u003ci\u003eMercury News\u003c\/i\u003e covering the 1988 San Francisco Earthquake). \u003ci\u003eDark Alliance\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eKill the Messenger\u003c\/i\u003e. His death in 2004 was ruled a suicide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Gary Webb \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47876559503517,"sku":"9781609806217","price":46.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_99b20111-4082-4d5e-aed2-2d328be5c626.jpg?v=1777381757","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/dark-alliance-movie-tie-in-edition-the-cia-the-contras-and-the-crack-cocaine-explosion-9781609806217","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}