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Benjamin Breen Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Associate professor of history @UCSC, author of "The Age of Intoxication" and forthcoming "Tripping on Utopia" (2024). Substack: https://t.co/gKOn1SZypG

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Book Cover for: Dianetics: Modern Science of Mental Health, L. Ron Hubbard

Dianetics: Modern Science of Mental Health

L. Ron Hubbard
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@UCSCLibrary @SRI_Intl @ucsc @georgependle @nevalalee Then L. Ron Hubbard starts developing Dianetics, 1949. "Dammit, the man's got something––and something big," raves John Campbell. After being "cleared," a stutterer was "left jabbering like a house afire." Maybe because, as LRH put it, "Benzedrine often helps a case run"... https://t.co/aN3XFqIgMt

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Book Cover for: The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade, Benjamin Breen

The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade

Benjamin Breen
Benjamin BreenBenjamin Breen

I've been waiting for the news cycle to slow down a bit before plugging my book, but that seems unlikely to ever happen, so... "The Age of Intoxication" is out now from @PennPress! You can buy it from Penn: https://t.co/EIBgwem0YF or Amazon: https://t.co/aVrkluocVh https://t.co/WEsjM4QxOi

Paperback, 2021

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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