A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers
Book Type
Hardcover
Number of Pages
320
Publisher Name
28
ISBN-10
0465086586
ISBN-13
9780465086580
citemno
253400
Edition
1
SKU
9780465086580
Description
The definitive history of America’s tranquilizer culture—from the Miltown sensation in the 1950s to Valium in the 1960s and 1970s to Xanax in the twenty-first century.
We live in an age of ever-deepening anxiety. Free of convictions, released from certainties, we appear untethered—and alone. The values that underpinned our sense of, and need for, collectivity have...