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| Author | Allan M. Brandt |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Basic Books |
Publication date | March 13, 2007 |
| Pages | 640 |
| ISBN | 978-0-465-07048-0 |
| 338.4 |
The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America is a history of tobacco usage in the United States, written in 2007 by medical historian Allan M. Brandt.
Background
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[edit]Reception and awards
[edit]The book was awarded the Bancroft Prize in 2008.[1] It was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.[2]
References
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[edit]Useful Sources
[edit]For Background
[edit]Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris (Richard Kluger, 1996)
Cigarette Wars: The Triumph of "The Little White Slaver" (Cassandra Tate, 1999)
Tobacco in History and Culture. An Encyclopedia (Jordan Goodman, 1993)
The Smoke of the Gods: A Social History of Tobacco (Eric Burns, 2007) https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt14bt0m0
Reviews
[edit]Ian Tyrrell, The American Historical Review, Vol. 113, No. 3 (Jun., 2008), pp. 782-785 (4 pages), https://www.jstor.org/stable/30223055
Caroline Jean Acker The Journal of American History, Vol. 94, No. 3, Through the Eye of Katrina: The Past as Prologue? (Dec., 2007), pp. 955-956 (2 pages) https://www.jstor.org/stable/25095213
Jordan Goodman Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 82, No. 2 (Summer 2008), pp. 485-486 (2 pages) https://www.jstor.org/stable/44448594
Ann La Berge Isis, Vol. 102, No. 3 (September 2011), pp. 582-584 (3 pages) https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/663060
Stan Shatenstein BMJ: British Medical Journal, Vol. 335, No. 7609 (7 July 2007), p. 46 (1 page) https://www.jstor.org/stable/20694949
Robert L. Rabin American Scientist, Vol. 95, No. 5 (SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2007), pp. 444-446 (3 pages) https://www.jstor.org/stable/27859033
Robert N. Proctor Science, New Series, Vol. 316, No. 5825 (May 4, 2007), pp. 692-693 (2 pages) https://www.jstor.org/stable/20036164
Wayne Hall, Tobacco Control, 2007; 16(5): 360. doi: 10.1136/tc.2007.021311, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2598565/
Tobacco Road, Jonathan Miles, May 6, 2007 https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/books/review/Miles.t.html
Other sources
[edit]Learning the hard way (Interviews Brandt and talks about book) https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/08/applying-lessons-learned-from-the-tobacco-settlement-to-opioid-negotiations/
Risk, Pleasure, and Change: Using the Cigarette to Teach U. S. Cultural History Martha N. Gardner The History Teacher, Vol. 47, No. 1 (November 2013), pp. 9-24 (16 pages) (Talks about Brandt and book) https://www.jstor.org/stable/43264182
Interview with Brandt on WGTD News, 4/20/2021, https://www.wgtd.org/playlist/morning-show/rise-and-fall-cigarette-century-author-allan-m-brandt-also-author-greg-tate
- ^ "Columbia Announces 2008 Bancroft Prize Winners Esteemed Historians Allan M. Brandt, Charles Postel, and Peter Silver to Receive Awards". Columbia University Libraries. March 14, 2008.
- ^ "2008 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes.