Bücher von Richard L. Miller

The war on drugs is a war on ordinary people.

On the 75th anniversary of the Harrison Narcotic Act that unleashed the federal anti-drug crusade, historian Richard Lawrence Miller explores the origins, purposes, and effects of America's drug war.

From an institutional standpoint, however, this study of a justice who failed sharpens our understanding of how the U.S. Supreme Court differs from other judicial bodies and fills a surprising gap in the Court's history.

Using original decrees, court decisions and first-hand recollections of participants, this work examines the German legal system during the pre-World War II years, showing how the legal system shaped everyday life and how the people, as well as businesses, ultimately benefitted from the Holocaust.

This comprehensive reference guide describes more than 130 alphabetically arranged drugs of abuse, including both pharmaceutical and natural products.