The Resource Kingpin : prisoner of the war on drugs, Richard Stratton, (electronic resource eBook)
Kingpin : prisoner of the war on drugs, Richard Stratton, (electronic resource eBook)
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The item Kingpin : prisoner of the war on drugs, Richard Stratton, (electronic resource eBook) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Public Libraries of Suffolk County, New York.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item Kingpin : prisoner of the war on drugs, Richard Stratton, (electronic resource eBook) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Public Libraries of Suffolk County, New York.
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- Summary
- "Captured in the lobby of the Sheraton Senator Hotel at LAX following a fifteen-year run smuggling marijuana and hashish as part of the hippie mafia, Richard Stratton began a new journey. Gulag America tells the story of the eight years that followed, through two federal trials and the underworld of the federal prison system, at a time when it was undergoing unprecedented expansion due to the War on Drugs. Stratton was shipped by bus from LA's notorious Glass House to jails and prisons across the country, a softening process known as diesel therapy. Resisting pressure to falsely implicate his friend and mentor, Norman Mailer, he was convicted in his second trial under the kingpin statute and sentenced to twenty-five years without the possibility of parole. While doing time in prisons from Manhattan's Criminal Hilton to rural Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, and New York, he witnessed brutality as well as camaraderie, rampant trafficking of contraband, and crimes by both guards and convicts. He first learned the lessons of survival. Then he learned to prevail, becoming a jailhouse lawyer and winning the reversal of his kingpin sentence and eventual release. Gulag America includes cameos by Norman Mailer and Muhammad Ali, and an account of the author's friendship with mafia don Joe Stassi, a legendary hitman from the early days of the mob who knew gangsters Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, and Abe Zwillman and has insights into the killing of Dutch Schultz and the Kennedy assassination Gulag America is the second volume in Richard Stratton's trilogy, Remembrance of the War on Plants."--Goodreads.com
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Isbn
- 9781628727289
- Label
- Kingpin : prisoner of the war on drugs
- Title
- Kingpin
- Title remainder
- prisoner of the war on drugs
- Statement of responsibility
- Richard Stratton
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Captured in the lobby of the Sheraton Senator Hotel at LAX following a fifteen-year run smuggling marijuana and hashish as part of the hippie mafia, Richard Stratton began a new journey. Gulag America tells the story of the eight years that followed, through two federal trials and the underworld of the federal prison system, at a time when it was undergoing unprecedented expansion due to the War on Drugs. Stratton was shipped by bus from LA's notorious Glass House to jails and prisons across the country, a softening process known as diesel therapy. Resisting pressure to falsely implicate his friend and mentor, Norman Mailer, he was convicted in his second trial under the kingpin statute and sentenced to twenty-five years without the possibility of parole. While doing time in prisons from Manhattan's Criminal Hilton to rural Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, and New York, he witnessed brutality as well as camaraderie, rampant trafficking of contraband, and crimes by both guards and convicts. He first learned the lessons of survival. Then he learned to prevail, becoming a jailhouse lawyer and winning the reversal of his kingpin sentence and eventual release. Gulag America includes cameos by Norman Mailer and Muhammad Ali, and an account of the author's friendship with mafia don Joe Stassi, a legendary hitman from the early days of the mob who knew gangsters Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, and Abe Zwillman and has insights into the killing of Dutch Schultz and the Kennedy assassination Gulag America is the second volume in Richard Stratton's trilogy, Remembrance of the War on Plants."--Goodreads.com
- Biography type
- autobiography
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Stratton, Richard
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HV9468
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
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- OverDrive, Inc
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Stratton, Richard
- Prisoners
- Drug traffic
- Label
- Kingpin : prisoner of the war on drugs, Richard Stratton, (electronic resource eBook)
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- Carrier category
- online resource
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- cr
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- Color
- multicolored
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- txt
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- rdacontent
- Dimensions
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- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- electronic
- Isbn
- 9781628727289
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- bc
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- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System details
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Format: Adobe EPUB eBook
- Format: Kindle Book
- Format: OverDrive Read
- Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon Kindle
- Label
- Kingpin : prisoner of the war on drugs, Richard Stratton, (electronic resource eBook)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- electronic
- Isbn
- 9781628727289
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- bc
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- fb83eefd-f15b-4bae-8942-ad7e8907b9eb
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System details
-
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Format: Adobe EPUB eBook
- Format: Kindle Book
- Format: OverDrive Read
- Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon Kindle
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