On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine
Nicolas Rasmussen
CONTENTS
1: The New Sensation
Amphetamine's discovery and the drug business in the 'Roaring 20s'
2: Benzedrine: Making Of A Modern Medicine
Amphetamine's initial clinical testing and marketing in the 1930s
3: Speed And Total War
Allied and Axis alike issue amphetamines to soldiers - for 'morale'
4: Bootleggers, Beatniks,
And Benzedrine Benders
And Benzedrine Benders
America's 1940s jazz counterculture finds beauty in decongestants
5: A Bromide For The Atomic Age
Amphetamine maintains harmony in the 1950s consumer's paradise
6: Amphetamine And
The Go-Go Years
From JFK to Warhol to Swinging Soho, the 1960s were saturated with amphetamines
