Assassin of youth : a kaleidoscopic history of Harry J. Anslinger's war on drugs / Alexandra Chasin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chasin, Alexandra, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anslinger, H. J. (Harry Jacob), 1892-1975.

Anslinger, H. J.

United States. Bureau of Narcotics--Officials and employees--Biography.

United States.

United States. Bureau of Narcotics.

Drug enforcement agents--United States--Biography.

Drug enforcement agents.

Drug control--United States--History--20th century.

Drug control.

Employees.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

346 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Contents:

1 The Trouble with Harry 3

Martha, The Last Passenger Pigeon, 1967

2 In a Word 15

The Pharmacopoeia OF The United States of America, 1820

3 The Square Last Mentioned 21

Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Deed, Hollidaysburg, Pa, 1849

4 Maybe Born in Bern 25

Ship Manifest with Harry J. Anslinger's Father, 1882

5 A Willing and Cheerful Obedience Thereto 27

Pennsylvania Railroad Company, "General Rules," 1857

Timetables, 1886-1891

6 To Prohibit Vice Is Not Ordinarily Considered Within The Police Power of the State 35

Wasp Cartoon, 1888

Map of San Francisco, 1875

7 Now Building at Altoona 39

Altoona Mirror, May 20, 1892

8 In All Cases of Doubt or Uncertainty 43

Rules and Regulations For Schools, Altoona, 1894

9 Alcohol Is A Poison 46

Washington and Lincoln Elementary Schools

Albert F. Blaisdell, The Child's Book Of Health, 1905

10 The Narcotic Element is the Siren 51

Pennsylvania Railroad Company, "Signals," 1857

11 Lotus Eaters 57

Whosoever: The Odyssey, Book IX, 1879-1882

The Grammar of the Lotus, Decorative Element, 1891

The Odyssey, Map, 1900

12 The Education of Harry Anslinger 65

Harry J. Anslinger, Job Application, 1918

13 Horseplay Turns to Tragedy 68

Shanghai Opium Commission Report, 1909

14 A High-Priced Man: So Stupid That the Word "Percentage" Has No Meaning to Him 73

Frederick Winslow Taylor, Principles of Scientific Management, 1911

15 Keystone State of Mind 79

Fatty Joins the Force, Keystone Kops Movie Poster, 1913

16 The Harrison Act 86

The Harrison Act, 1914

17 Becoming a Fed 91

18 Only Words From Which There Is No Escape: Jin Fuey Moy 94

Jin Fuey Moy, 1898 And 1921

19 Not One Minute Darkness 100

Harry J. Anslinger Travel Diary, July 1918

20 Within The Words 106

Webb V. United States, 1919

21 I Would Not Endeavor To Descrive 113

Harry J. Anslinger, Travel Diary, November 1918

22 On The Basis Of Science 118

Narcotic Prescription Charts, In Traffic In Narcotic Drugs, 1919

23 Human Wreckage: Wally Reid 124

Wallace Reid, 1922

24 Lotus Eaters: In Dolce Far Niente 135

La Guaira-Caracas Railroad, 1924

25 Under V. United States (1925), Or Vice Versa 152

"Health Talks By Dr. Charles 0. Linder," 1930

26 A Set of False Teeth in Its Stomach 158

Harry J. Anslinger, "The Assignment, Or Infinite Echoes," 1916

27 Prohibition as Substance:Putting the Bureau in Bureaucracy 165

Harry J. Anslinger, "Statement of Training And Experience," 1929

28 The Federal Bureau of Politics: With Camel Hair Glued Over Them 169

Us Coast Guard and rumnmner, 1924

29 A Plastic Palimpsest 177

SS Selma, 1915

30 The Collected Stories of Harry J. Anslinger 184

"Assassin of Youth," American Magazine, 1937

31 Funking The Necessary Immigrations 195

Map of East Harlem, The Sun, 1935

Map Of Chicago, In Frederic M. Thrasher, Gangland, 1926

32 The Marijuana Tax Act 203

Anslinger's Gore Files, 1937

33 The Unbridled Powers of a Czar 209

Saliva Test, Post Time, 1935

34 Anslinger Nation, Or Double Agency 214

The Public Enemy, 1931

Bullets or Ballots, 1936

35 Fiction Alone Has No Monopoly in This Field: Real Detective Stories 221

"New Orleans' Dope Secret," Startling Detective Adventures, 1938

36 This Fellow Ought To Be the Figment of Somebody's Imagination 230

Federal Bureau of Narcotics Training School Curriculum, 1950s

37 In Doctor Nation 238

Morphine Chart, 1938

38 Spindoctrination 247

"Narcotic 'Don'ts' for the Physician"

39 The World's Leading Authority 253

Harry J. Anslinger Photo, 1958

40 The Oriental Communists Had a Twofold Purpose 259

"How Opium, a Jap Weapon, Perils the World," Sunday Mirror Magazine, 1945

41 Lotus Eaters: 1953, or the Imponderabilia of Actual Life 264

"Drills and Drilling Operations" and "Rules," Shop Theory, 1942

M4FI4, 1960

42 Dr. John Blank 281

Prescription forms, Kansas, 1940s

43 Chasing the Ghostwriters 287

John A. Williams, The Angry Ones, Cover, 1960

44 Every Inch A Man 293

Harry J. Anslinger Residence, Hollidaysburg, PA

45 Out with a Whimper 298

Harry J. Anslinger Grave, Hollidaysburg, PA

Epilogue

46 Chasing the Ghost 307

Harry J. Anslinger, "Perspective of a Small City Place"

47 Toward a Poetics of Drug Policy 311

Martha, the Last Passenger Pigeon, 1914

Personal Letter From The Treasury Dept., 1985

48 Lotus Eaters: Charadrius Dubius 317

Las Marthas, 2014.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780226276977

022627697X

OCLC:

936350600