Assassin of Youth: A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslinger's War on Drugs by Alexandra Chasin

Assassin of Youth: A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslinger's War on Drugs

Alexandra Chasin

352 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography history politics informative slow-paced
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Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics from its establishment in 1930 until his retirement in 1962, Harry J. Anslinger is the United States’ little known first drug czar. Anslinger was a profligate propagandist with a flair for demonizing...

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