When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey

When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

Donovan X. Ramsey

448 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology informative reflective sad medium-paced

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A “vivid and frank” (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemicThe crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s is argua...

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informative 100%
reflective 67%
emotional 52%
sad 47%
challenging 43%
dark 30%
hopeful 23%
inspiring 10%
tense 6%

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slow 10%
fast 6%

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