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Part true crime, part work of urban sociology, Land of Opportunity is a meticulously researched account of the rise and fall of the Chambers brothers, who ran a multi-million-dollar crack cocaine operation in Detroit in the 1980s. Descended from Arkansas sharecroppers, BJ, Larry, and Willie Chambers moved to Detroit seeking economic opportunity, and built a successful drug empire by applying strict business principles to their trade; their business grossed an estimated $55 million annually until the brothers were sent to prison in 1989. Reading the Chambers brothers in the context of the fall of the Detroit auto-industry and its impact on the city's economy and residents, Land of Opportunity demonstrates how for the Chambers brothers, crack dealing was a rational career choice; and through the Chambers brothers' story, Adler provides bottom-up history of late Second Great Migration, deindustrialization, the War on Drugs, and crack era in both Detroit and the United States.
Contents
Foreword
Cast of Selected Characters
Introduction: Homecoming
Chapter One: Land of Cotton
Chapter Two: Washing Windows in a Blizzard
Chapter Three: Heaven Dust
Chapter Four: "BJ, Why Don't You Start Selling Crack?"
Chapter Five: Cool Hand Larry
Chapter Six: Moving Like Lightning
Chapter Seven: Marlow's One-Stop
Chapter Eight: "Good-bye, Dixie Land"
Chapter Nine: Too Windy for Tear Gas
Chapter Ten: "We Rich, Goddammit!"
Chapter Eleven: "Fuck It, I'll Fix Him"
Chapter Twelve: All in the Family
Chapter Thirteen: A Tale of Two Cities
Chapter Fourteen: As Close As Brothers Get
Epilogue: Nothing to Lose
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
