Harry Anslinger (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First printing. Grey cloth boards, red stamped spine titles, moderate wear. Pages very good. Inc. rare photo section. Begins with account of the grand council meeting of the Mafia at the 'Appalachin Conference,' then describes the historical origin of the brotherhood in Sicily, its appearance in the U.S. during the last century, and its growth and activities from the Prohibition era to the present. 243 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Ref. L5820. 1ª ed. 21x14. 350 pág. Enc. de la Edit. Criminología. (B) 350 pág. Criminología|Relatos.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Nice book, tight and square with bright covers and spine, clean unmarked interior. The unclipped jacket is also nice with minimal edge wear and shelf rubbing.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Attractive copy with a nice, square spine and clean interior. Curved fore-edge crease on the front cover, probably due to thumbing open. Has some minor wear to the cover edges, and a little wear to the text block bottom edge, but overall this is a terrific copy. V-2064 on the cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Hardcover, lacking dust jacket. Bookplate on paste down, partially removed.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. R150033599: 1963. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 254 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO40156406: 1963. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 254 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine.

.- Barcelona . 1962. Bruguera. 21x14 cm. 1 tomo. 347 pgs. Con firma anterior propietario. Buen estado. Tela con sobrecubiertas. Buen estado. . .

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. 354p, octavo. A very good copy in a very good jacket. Text block lightly soiled. Jacket is scuffed and rubbed with wear to extremities - a few nicks, creasing and rubbing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. First Edition; Eighth Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Harry Anslinger on the front free endpaper and warmly inscribed to the recipient. xii, 244 pp. Bound in publisher's black paper-covered boards over oatmeal spine cloth stamped in black and red. Very Good with light rubbing and edge fading to covers, discoloration to rear joint, and bumping to rear board corners. Topstain a little scuffed and faded at gutter. In a Good+ unclipped dust jacket with sunned spine panel, light edgewear, moderate foxing and soiling, and two tape repairs to verso. Signed copies are rare. Harry Anslinger is the man who invented the "War on Drugs," a core element of American domestic policy for almost a century. He ran the Federal Bureau of Narcotics from its inception in 1930 to his retirement in 1962, through five presidential administrations. Some have compared his influence to that of his rival FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, although Anslinger was much less well known. Anslinger actively pursued cases of mafia-related drug-trafficking, whereas Hoover was insistent that no such thing as the mafia existed. Anslinger efforts against marijuana, which he at one point declared the most dangerous drug in the world, led to the drug's ban in 1937. He associated both marijuana and heroin with jazz music, which he despised, and relentlessly pursued the singer Billie Holiday. Throughout his career, he insisted that "strong laws, good enforcement, stiff sentences and a proper hospitalization program" were the solution to the problem of narcotics abuse. His legacy endures today.

An offprint of this indictment of marijuana by the father of drug prohibition in the US. Anslinger led the Federal Bureau of Narcotics from 1930 to 1962 and linked marijuana to derangement, insanity, military insubordination, and social breakdown. "Anslinger's sincerity as a relentless drug-prohibition advocate and enforcer has never been questioned, but his skilful bureaucratic empire-building inspired much of the 'war' on drugs that has gripped the nation and nurtured the gigantic US drug-war establishment ever since" (ANB). This article was first published in February 1944 in the Union Signal, the newspaper of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Bifolium (230 x 153 mm), printed across all pages. Browning, short split at foot of fold, couple of closed tears: very good.