{"product_id":"land-of-opportunity-one-familys-quest-for-the-american-dream-in-the-age-of-crack-paperback","title":"Land of Opportunity: One Family's Quest for the American Dream in the Age of Crack - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam M. Adler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart true crime, part work of urban sociology, \u003ci\u003eLand of Opportunity\u003c\/i\u003e is a meticulously researched account of the rise and fall of the Chambers brothers, who ran a multi-million-dollar crack cocaine operation in Detroit in the 1980s. Descended from Arkansas sharecroppers, BJ, Larry, and Willie Chambers moved to Detroit seeking economic opportunity, and built a successful drug empire by applying strict business principles to their trade; their business grossed an estimated $55 million annually until the brothers were sent to prison in 1989. Reading the Chambers brothers in the context of the fall of the Detroit auto-industry and its impact on the city's economy and residents, \u003ci\u003eLand of Opportunity \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates how for the Chambers brothers, crack dealing was a rational career choice; and through the Chambers brothers' story, Adler provides bottom-up history of late Second Great Migration, deindustrialization, the War on Drugs, and crack era in both Detroit and the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam M. Adler \u003c\/b\u003eis a freelance writer whose work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMother Jones\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eTexas Observer\u003c\/i\u003e. In addition to \u003ci\u003eLand of Opportunity, \u003c\/i\u003ehe has written two other books of narrative nonfiction: \u003ci\u003eMollie's Job\u003c\/i\u003e, which follows the flight of a single factory job from the US to Mexico over the course of fifty years; and \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Never Died\u003c\/i\u003e, a biography of the labor martyr Joe Hill. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 394\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 11, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768022925600,"sku":"9780472038633","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5ba0a8dd5b1837d17482b1c11a24a0e0.webp?v=1780322872","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/land-of-opportunity-one-familys-quest-for-the-american-dream-in-the-age-of-crack-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}