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The Last Pirate: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2014
- ISBN
- 9780385533461
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Last Pirate : a Father, HIS Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics
- Topic
- Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Parenting / Fatherhood, Personal Memoirs, Industries / Agribusiness, Anger (See Also Self-Help / Self-Management / Anger Management)
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In the tradition of "Blow" and "Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, The Last Pirate" is a vivid, haunting and often hilarious memoir recounting the life of Big Tony, a family man who joined the biggest pot ring of the Reagan era and exploded his life in the process. Three decades later, his son came back to put together the pieces. As he relates his father s rise from hey-man hippie dealer to multi-ton smuggler extraordinaire, Tony Dokoupil tells the larger history of marijuana and untangles the controversies still stirring furious debate today. He blends superb reportage with searing personal memories, presenting a probing chronicle of pot-smoking, drug-taking America from the perspective of the generation that grew up in the aftermath of the Great Stoned Age. Back then, everyone knew a drug dealer. "The Last Pirate" is the story of what happened to one of them, to his family, and in a pharmacological sense, to us all. "The Last Pirate" is a cultural portrait of marijuana s endless allure set against the Technicolor backdrop of South Florida in the era of "Miami Vice." It s a public saga complete with a real pirate s booty: more than a million dollars lost, buried, or stolen but it s also a deeply personal pursuit, the product of a son s determination to replant the family tree in richer soil."
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385533462
ISBN-13
9780385533461
eBay Product ID (ePID)
167617371
Product Key Features
Book Title
Last Pirate : a Father, HIS Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Parenting / Fatherhood, Personal Memoirs, Industries / Agribusiness, Anger (See Also Self-Help / Self-Management / Anger Management)
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in.
Item Height
1.1in.
Item Width
6.4in.
Item Weight
19.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn4874.D63a3 2014
Reviews
"With its unmistakable ring of truth , The Last Pirate strips away the self-serving blarney about big-time pot smuggling of the seventies and eighties to tell the sad but compelling story of a narcissist who, with a notable lack of self awareness, wrecks his family and his own life to fulfill his delusions of grandeur. In reporting on and coming to terms with his father's colorful and destructive past, Tony Dokoupil has added remarkably to the nonfiction literature of the drug business." - Bruce Porter, author of Blow: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost it All " The Last Pirate is crazy brilliant. Both hysterically funny and irresistibly disturbing , I could not stop reading it. The TV show Weeds is a nursery rhyme compared to the real-life grit, danger, and devastation of this family's story. But it wasn't only the mayhem that I loved. Tony Dokoupil also shows us how a son can forgive and accept a father who really doesn't make it easy." - David Sheff, author of Beautiful Boy, "NBC News senior writer Dokoupil offers a gripping examination of his longtime marijuana-dealing father, as well as a researched look at the evolution of American narcotics laws... Dokoupil's sharp eye for detail makes for a lively and often moving narrative full of cinematic scenes and snappy dialogue. Dokoupil draws on his experience as a reporter to deliver an unflinching and detailed look at a criminal family's life." - Publisher's Weekly (Starred Review) "There is a pseudoheroic, merry-band-of-pirates tone to these often-hilarious adventures in the drug business during the Reagan era. Dokoupil recounts how the smuggling and distribution business ran and contextualizes it within the "Great Stoned Age." Partly the history of a generation, yet very much a family story...though there are no heroes, readers owe the author thanks for this well-told, ironic, and gripping story." - Booklist "With its unmistakable ring of truth, The Last Pirate strips away the self-serving blarney about big-time pot smuggling of the seventies and eighties to tell the sad but compelling story of a narcissist who, with a notable lack of self awareness, wrecks his family and his own life to fulfill his delusions of grandeur. In reporting on and coming to terms with his father's colorful and destructive past, Tony Dokoupil has added remarkably to the nonfiction literature of the drug business." -- Bruce Porter, author of Blow: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost it All "The Last Pirate is crazy brilliant. Both hysterically funny and irresistibly disturbing, I could not stop reading it. The TV show Weeds is a nursery rhyme compared to the real-life grit, danger, and devastation of this family's story. But it wasn't only the mayhem that I loved. Tony Dokoupil also shows us how a son can forgive and accept a father who really doesn't make it easy." -- David Sheff, author of Beautiful Boy, "With its unmistakable ring of truth , The Last Pirate strips away the self-serving blarney about big-time pot smuggling of the seventies and eighties to tell the sad but compelling story of a sociopath who, with a notable lack of self awareness, wrecks his family and his own life to fulfill his delusions of grandeur. In reporting on and coming to terms with his father's colorful and destructive past, Tony Dokoupil has added remarkably to the nonfiction literature of the drug business." - Bruce Porter, author of Blow: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost it All " The Last Pirate is crazy brilliant. Both hysterically funny and irresistibly disturbing , I could not stop reading it. The TV show Weeds is a nursery rhyme compared to the real-life grit, danger, and devastation of this family's story. But it wasn't only the mayhem that I loved. Tony Dokoupil also shows us how a son can forgive and accept a father who really doesn't make it easy." - David Sheff, author of Beautiful Boy
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Lccn
2013-034094
Illustrated
Yes
Number of Pages
272 Pages
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