Money Rock: A Familys Story of Cocaine, Race, and Ambition in the New South
b'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'