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DescriptionThe Pursuit of Oblivion is a history of drug-taking, telling the story across five centuries of addicts and users: monarchs, prime ministers, great writers and composers, wounded soldiers, overworked physicians, oppressed housewives, exhausted labourers, high powered-businessmen, playboys, sex workers, pop stars, seedy losers, stressed adolescents, defiant schoolchildren and happy young people on a spree. It is also the history of one bad idea: prohibition. Author descriptionRichard Davenport-Hines is a past winner of the Wolfson Prize for History and contributes regularly to the TLS, Sunday Times, Independent and Nature. |