- Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
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Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town Author(s) Nick Reding Country United States Language English Genre(s) Non-Fiction Publisher Bloomsbury USA Publication date June 2009 Media type Print (Hardcover) ISBN 9781596916500 OCLC Number 263147011 Dewey Decimal 362.29/9 22 LC Classification HV5831.I8 R43 2009 Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town is a book by Nick Reding which documents the drug culture of Oelwein, Iowa and how it ties into larger issues of rural flight and small town economic decline placed in the historic context of the drug trade. While Reding's book received positive reviews from the New York Times Sunday Book Review[1] and Washington Post's Book World[2], it was severely criticised by local columnist Laura Behrens, who wrote, "it is so ridden with errors of basic reporting that the credibility of its larger premises is crippled", pointing out several factual errors.[3]
References
- ^ Walter Kirin, Wasted Land, New York Times Sunday Book Review, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/books/review/Kirn-t.html
- ^ David Liss, Heartbreak in the Heartland, The Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/12/AR2009061201403.html
- ^ Laura Behrens, Holes in ‘Methland’ unforgivable. p. 4A, Cedar Rapids Gazette July 24, 2009
Categories:- Non-fiction books about drugs
- Methamphetamine
- Crime in Iowa
- American non-fiction books
- Drugs in the United States
- Non-fiction book stubs
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