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Dark Alliance: The CIA the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
Best.-Nr. 140947454New York: Seven Stories Press 1998. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. Signed by Gary Webb on the half-title page inscribed "1-16-99 Eugene OR For Charles Overbeck Ashley. Onward upward And keep Parascope as great as it is. Best wishes signed Gary Webb." The inscribee is an Oregon journalist and author. xxviii 5 548 pp. with eight pages of b/w photos. Fine with light shelfwear to boards and dust-soiling to upper edge of textblock. In a Near Fine dust jacket with sunned spine panel hint of toning to flaps and several very small stains along lower edge. Signed copies are rare. Journalist Gary Webb's still-controversial expose of CIA drug dealing and its relationship to the crack epidemic in the US fueled by crack dealers like "Freeway" Ricky Ross. In 2004 Webb would be found dead in his apartment shot in the head twice which police ruled a suicide. A 2014 film Kill the Messenger dramatized Webb's life his claims and the severe backlash he faced from the media. To his supporters Webb remains an inspirational journalist who persevered in the face of tremendous official corruption and coverup. Seven Stories Press unknown books
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