From Heroin to Heresy: The Making of an American Social Thinker
by James E. Palombo, Phil Pisani
Category: Biography & Autobiography

This "story about experiences" is a very readable account of Palombo's journey from dealing illegal drugs in Las Vegas, through a residency in Nevada's prison system, to a successful career as a university-level teacher & community-project facilitator in the United States & abroad. Palombo has responded over the years with more education, more community service positions, more reading & more teaching to try to turn around what he understands as a serious national identity crisis: our confusing democratic ideas with capitalist tenets as a viable way of life.