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No book before this one has rendered the story of cigarettes -- mankind's most common self-destructive instrument and its most profitable consumer product -- with such sweep and enlivening detail.
Here for the first time, in a story full of the complexities and contradictions of human nature, all the strands of the historical process -- financial, social, psychological, medical, political, and legal -- are woven together in a riveting narrative. The key characters are the top corporate executives, public health investigators, and antismoking activists who have clashed ever more stridently as Americans debate whether smoking should be closely regulated as a major health menace.
We see tobacco spread rapidly from its aboriginal sources in the New World 500 years ago, as it becomes increasingly viewed by some as sinful and some as alluring, and by government as a windfall source of tax revenue. With the arrival of the cigarette in the late-nineteenth century, smoking changes from a luxury and occasional pastime to an everyday -- to some, indispensable -- habit, aided markedly by the exuberance of the tobacco huskers.
This free-enterprise success saga grows shadowed, from the middle of this century, as science begins to understand the cigarette's toxicity. Ironically the more detailed and persuasive the findings by medical investigators, the more cigarette makers prosper by seeming to modify their product with filters and reduced dosages of tar and nicotine.
We see the tobacco manufacturers come under intensifying assault as a rogue industry for knowingly and callously plying their hazardous wares while insisting that the health charges against them (a) remain unproven, and (b) are universally understood, so smokers indulge at their own risk.
Among the eye-opening disclosures here: outrageous pseudo-scientific claims made for cigarettes throughout the '30s and '40s, and the story of how the tobacco industry and the National Cancer Institute spent millions to develop a "safer" cigarette that was never brought to market.
Dealing with an emotional subject that has generated more heat than light, this book is a dispassionate tour de force that examines the nature of the companies' culpability, the complicity of society as a whole, and the shaky moral ground claimed by smokers who are now demanding recompense
理查德・剋魯格(Richard Kluger),曾先後任《華爾街日報》記者、《福布斯》雜誌和《紐約郵報》的撰稿人《紐約先驅論壇報》的文學編輯、酉濛一舒斯特齣版社的執行編輯、雅典娜齣版社的總編。從 1974年起,他成為一名職業撰稿人。曾發錶另兩部社會史專著《簡單公正》(simple justice)《紐約先驅論壇報的興衰》(The Paper:The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribute )。這兩本書曾被提名為國傢圖書奬,成為該領域的名著。他還發錶瞭六部小說,其中最著名的有《部落成員 》(Members of the Tribe)和《諾丁漢的長官》(The Sheriff of Nottingham)。
如此翔實的研究大概還是得益於“泄密者”披露的珍貴材料和豐富的司法素材。
評分如此翔實的研究大概還是得益於“泄密者”披露的珍貴材料和豐富的司法素材。
評分如此翔實的研究大概還是得益於“泄密者”披露的珍貴材料和豐富的司法素材。
評分如此翔實的研究大概還是得益於“泄密者”披露的珍貴材料和豐富的司法素材。
評分如此翔實的研究大概還是得益於“泄密者”披露的珍貴材料和豐富的司法素材。
把这么一本相当小众的书叫做“名著”,只是表明我个人的态度。我不觉得自己哗众取宠的原因,部分因为作者Richard Kluger以此书获得了1997年的普利策奖。不怕您笑话,我假装对普利策奖如雷贯耳,其实还真不知道到底它有多不凡,揣测着它没准儿是中国的“矛盾文学奖”一类的玩意...
評分把这么一本相当小众的书叫做“名著”,只是表明我个人的态度。我不觉得自己哗众取宠的原因,部分因为作者Richard Kluger以此书获得了1997年的普利策奖。不怕您笑话,我假装对普利策奖如雷贯耳,其实还真不知道到底它有多不凡,揣测着它没准儿是中国的“矛盾文学奖”一类的玩意...
評分把这么一本相当小众的书叫做“名著”,只是表明我个人的态度。我不觉得自己哗众取宠的原因,部分因为作者Richard Kluger以此书获得了1997年的普利策奖。不怕您笑话,我假装对普利策奖如雷贯耳,其实还真不知道到底它有多不凡,揣测着它没准儿是中国的“矛盾文学奖”一类的玩意...
評分把这么一本相当小众的书叫做“名著”,只是表明我个人的态度。我不觉得自己哗众取宠的原因,部分因为作者Richard Kluger以此书获得了1997年的普利策奖。不怕您笑话,我假装对普利策奖如雷贯耳,其实还真不知道到底它有多不凡,揣测着它没准儿是中国的“矛盾文学奖”一类的玩意...
評分把这么一本相当小众的书叫做“名著”,只是表明我个人的态度。我不觉得自己哗众取宠的原因,部分因为作者Richard Kluger以此书获得了1997年的普利策奖。不怕您笑话,我假装对普利策奖如雷贯耳,其实还真不知道到底它有多不凡,揣测着它没准儿是中国的“矛盾文学奖”一类的玩意...
Ashes to Ashes pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024