Dear Readers,
I’d like to recommend a book that, while not specifically about drugs, is extraordinarily relevant to the subject matter of today’s post.
The book is The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster, by John O’Connor. It will be officially released on February 6, but we ordered our copy from our neighborhood shop last week and already have it in hand (thanks, Greg!).
John is one of my oldest friends. In fact, he may have even played a role in some of the stories I’ve told you about teenage deviance during the late 1980s. He’s also part of our community here at History on Drugs.
But even if none of that were true, I’d be recommending The Secret History of Bigfoot to you. It is a legitimately great book about the capacity of humans, and especially Americans, to believe in things that surely don’t exist.
As Amanda Petrusich of the New Yorker puts it:
John O’Connor is a deeply smart, funny, and tenderhearted writer, and the The Secret History of Bigfoot is …
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