Money Rock: A Familys Story of Cocaine, Race, and Ambition in the New South
A former reporter for the\xa0Charlotte Observer,\xa0Pam Kelley\xa0has won honors from the National Press Club and the Society for Features Journalism. She contributed to a subprime mortgage expos\xe9 that was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. She is the author of\xa0Money Rock: A Family\u2019s Story of Cocaine, Race, and Ambition in the New South\xa0(The New Press). Meet Money Rock. He\u2019s young. He\u2019s charismatic. He\u2019s generous, often to a fault. He\u2019s one of Charlotte\u2019s most successful cocaine dealers, and that\u2019s what first prompted veteran reporter Pam Kelley to craft this riveting social history\u2014by turns action-packed, uplifting, and tragic\u2014of a striving African American family, swept up and transformed by the 1980s cocaine epidemic. This gripping tale, populated with characters both big-hearted and flawed, shows how social forces and public policies\u2014racism, segregation, the War on Drugs, mass incarceration\u2014help shape individual destinies.\xa0Money Rock\xa0is a deeply American story, one that will leave readers reflecting on the near impossibility of making lasting change, in our lives and as a society, until we reckon with the sins of our past.\n\nAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands\n\nPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy