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Cracked coverage : television news, the anti-cocaine crusade, and the Reagan legacy

Title
Cracked coverage : television news, the anti-cocaine crusade, and the Reagan legacy / Jimmie L. Reeves and Richard Campbell.
Author
Reeves, Jimmie Lynn.
Publication
Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1994.

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Campbell, Richard, 1949-
Description
xi, 330 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subjects
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  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Pt. I. Re-Covering the War on Drugs. 1. The Cocaine Narrative: A Thoroughly Modern Morality Tale. 2. Merchants of Modern Discipline: The Drug Control Establishment. 3. Visualizing the Drug News: Journalistic Surveillance/Spectacle. 4. Reaganism: The Packaging of Backlash Politics -- Pt. II. Interrogating the Cocaine Narrative. 5. The Trickle-Down Paradigm: White Pow(d)er and Therapeutic Recovery. 6. The Siege Paradigm: Rewriting the Cocaine Narrative. 7. Captivating Public Opinion: The Ventriloquist Turn. 8. Family Matters: Nurturing Normalcy/Reproducing Delinquency. 9. Denouement: Second Thoughts -- Epilogue: Spin-Offs -- Appendix A: Cocaine Stories -- Appendix B: Noncocaine Stories -- Appendix C: Chronology of Kernel Events in the Cocaine Narrative.
ISBN
  • 0822314495 (alk. paper)
  • 0822314916 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
93041411
OCLC
  • 29314177
  • ocm29314177
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries