Best Worst President

Product description
Throughout the 1800s, opium and cocaine could be easily obtained to treat a range of ailments in Canada. Dependency, when it occurred, was considered a matter of personal vice. Near the end of the century, attitudes shifted and access to drugs became more restricted. How did this happen In this intoxicating history, Dan Malleck examines the conditions that lead to Canadas current drug laws. Drawing on newspaper accounts, medical and pharmacy journals, professional association records, asylum records, physician case books, and pharmacy records, Malleck demonstrates how a number of social, economic, and cultural forces converged in the early 1900s to influence lawmakers and criminalize addiction. His research exposes how social concerns about drug addiction had less to do with the long pipe and shadowy den than with lobbying by medical professionals, concern about the morality and future of the nation, and a growing pharmaceutical industry.-
About the Author
Mark Hannah (author) is a veteran of three presidential campaigns and is a Democratic political commentator who appears regularly on FOX News and MSNBC. He has written political analysis for PBS. org, the Huffington Post and Politico and currently teaches at New York University, the New School and Queens College. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Bob Staake (illustrator) is the author and/or illustrator of more than 60 books that have been translated into over 12 languages around the world. His artwork has been published in the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Sports Illustrated Kids, Time, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal. He has created numerous covers for the New Yorker, including their bestselling cover of all time, “Reflection, ” rendered for the occasion of Obama’s first inauguration. He lives in Chatham, Massachusetts.