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Cocaïn: History & Culture

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In the popular imagination, cocaine appeared sometime in the 1970s, seemingly out of nowhere, as the ne plus ultra party drug for the disco generation; shortly thereafter, its destructive effects...

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Armand Limnander is the executive editor of W magazine. Prior to that, he was features director at T: The New York Times Style Magazine, the editor of VMan magazine, and a senior writer at Vogue and Style.com. Limnander grew up in Bogotá, Colombia, and moved to the United States to attend the University of California at Berkeley. His books Brazilian Style and Private: Giancarlo Giammetti were published by Assouline in 2011 and 2013, respectively.

The Icons Collection

Cocaïn: History & Culture

$63

Your brain at this moment is composed of brigades of tiny Bolivian soldiers. They are tired and muddy from their long march through the night. There are holes in their boots and they are hungry. They need to be fed. The need the Bolivian Marching Powder.

— Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, 1984

Page count

184 pages

Number of illustrations

over 100

Language

English

Released on

December 2018

Dimensions

W 19 x L 28 x D 2 cm

Cover materials

Hardcover

ISBN

9781614287551

Weight

1.82 kg

Armand Limnander

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