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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. How to Think about the Culture War -- 2. Like It Was When I Was a Boy -- 3. Overcome -- 4. Twenty Percent of What the Nuts Want -- 5. Cheerleaders for the Rev -- 6. Babe in Christ -- 7. Act Right -- 8. Robert Bork's America -- 9. Like Battling the Devil -- 10. Referendum on the 1960s -- 11. The Illusion of Conservatism -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preface, 2001 -- A Note on Terminology and Spelling -- Introduction -- 1 The Extent of Opiate Addiction -- 2 Addiction to Opium and Morphine -- 3 Addiction to Smoking Opium -- 4 Addiction to Heroin -- 5 The Transformation of the Opiate Addict -- 6 Heroin in Postwar America -- 7 The Drug Wars -- Appendix: Addiction Rate and City Size -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Intro -- Nouvelle préface à l'édition française -- La révolution psychoactive -- Un état des lieux -- Introduction -- Chapitre 1 -- Le trio majeur : alcool, tabac et caféine -- Vin -- Spiritueux -- Tabac -- Boissons et nourritures caféinées -- La place du sucre dans la révolution psychoactive -- Chapitre 2 -- Le trio mineur : opium, cannabis et coca -- Opium -- Sainte morphine -- Le complexe ganja -- Le complexe marijuana -- Coca et cocaïne -- Chapitre 3 -- L'échiquier de la distribution -- La machine de distribution européenne -- Les drogues de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Monde -- L'avenir des plantes à drogues régionales -- Conséquences environnementales -- Le continuum géographique de la consommation de drogues -- Chapitre 4 -- Les apprentis sorciers -- « Une herbe grandement estimée » -- « La Plus Excellente Chose » -- Démocratiques amphétamines -- Le dilemme médical -- Chapitre 5 -- L'appât du plaisir -- Le paradoxe évolutionnaire -- L'importance de l'exposition aux drogues -- Dépendance, tolérance et demande -- Interactions sociales et commerce charnel -- De « lucratifs » problèmes -- Chapitre 6 -- Survivre à « l'enfer des marchandises » -- La machine sans l'Homme -- La parabole du grain de moutarde -- Promenade sur Madison Avenue -- Continuer à fumer -- McMonde -- Chapitre 7 -- Les opiums du peuple -- Prisonniers de l'engrenage du travail -- Animaux et armées -- Drogues et prostitution -- Troc et esclaves -- Chapitre 8 -- Taxes et contrebande -- Les types de taxation -- La dépendance aux taxes -- Les hauts et les bas du problème -- Quand « élevé » devient-il « trop élevé » ? -- Chapitre 9 -- Volte-face : vers la restriction et la prohibition -- Objections à l'usage de drogues à des fins non médicales -- Les drogues dans un monde industrialisé -- La charge médicale -- Nationalistes et internationalistes chinois -- Chapitre 10.

Few question the "right turn" America took after 1966, when liberal political power began to wane. But if they did, No Right Turn suggests, they might discover that all was not really "right" with the conservative golden age. A provocative overview of a half century of American politics, the book takes a hard look at the counterrevolutionary dreams of liberalism's enemies -- to overturn people's reliance on expanding government, reverse the moral and sexual revolutions, and win the Culture War -- and finds them largely unfulfilled. David Courtwright deftly profiles celebrated and controversial figures, from Clare Booth Luce, Barry Goldwater, and the Kennedy brothers to Jerry Falwell, David Stockman, and Lee Atwater. He shows us Richard Nixon's keen talent for turning popular anxieties about morality and federal meddling to Republican advantage -- and his inability to translate this advantage into reactionary policies. Corporate interests, boomer lifestyles, and the media weighed heavily against Nixon and his successors, who placated their base with high-profile attacks on crime, drugs, and welfare dependency. Meanwhile, religious conservatives floundered on abortion and school prayer, obscenity, gay rights, and legalized vices like gambling, and fiscal conservatives watched in dismay as the bills mounted. We see how President Reagan's melange of big government, strong defense, lower taxes, higher deficits, mass imprisonment, and patriotic symbolism proved an illusory form of conservatism. Ultimately, conservatives themselves rebelled against George W. Bush's profligate brand of Reaganism. Courtwright's account is both surprising and compelling, a bracing argument against some of our most cherished cliches about recent American history. - Publisher

Moral arguments in politics assume many guises. In American history, the most politically consequential moral arguments have involved allegations of tyranny or attacks on vice. The Declaration of Independence, an indignant catalogue of despotic abuses, indicted a colonial government corrupted by royal scheming; the revolution it justified created constitutions designed to hold tyranny in check. But tyranny had other means, as Andrew Jackson later reminded his countrymen. He denounced the Second Bank of the United States as a privileged monopoly with no place in a democratic republic. Adapted from the source document.