| The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History Updated Edition Contributor(s): Higdon, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 1493038494 ISBN-13: 9781493038497 Publisher: Lyons Press OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Organized Crime - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 364.177 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (1.10 lbs) 424 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 1970's - Chronological Period - 1980's - Geographic Orientation - Kentucky - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. In doing so, he set into motion a series of events that defined him and his associates as the largest homegrown marijuana syndicate in American history, also known as the Cornbread Mafia. Author James Higdon--whose relationship with Johnny Boone, currently a federal fugitive, made him the first journalist subpoenaed under the Obama administration--takes readers back to the 1970s and '80s and the clash between federal and local law enforcement and a band of Kentucky farmers with moonshine and pride in their bloodlines. By 1989 the task force assigned to take down men like Johnny Boone had arrested sixty-nine men and one woman from busts on twenty-nine farms in ten states, and seized two hundred tons of pot. Of the seventy individuals arrested, zero talked. How it all went down is a tale of Mafia-style storylines emanating from the Bluegrass State, and populated by Vietnam veterans and weed-loving characters caught up in Tarantino-level violence and heart-breaking altruism. Accompanied by a soundtrack of rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues, this work of dogged investigative journalism and history is told by Higdon in action-packed, colorful and riveting detail. |