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S Street Rising: Crack, Murder, and Redemption in D.C.
By Castaneda, Ruben
- ISBN
- 9781620400043 9781620400050
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury USA
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Reviewed on June 15, 2014 | Social Sciences
Former Washington Post reporter Castaneda takes on DC's (and his own) crack era in this memoir/social history. It's hard to find a better perspective: Castaneda writes as a recovering crack addict as well as the Post's crime reporter from 1989 until 1997, when DC was still known as the Murder Capital. (He covered local court issues, police brutality in particular, until 2011.) The author fol...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
