The Last Pirate

The Last Pirate: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana Paperback – January 6, 2015

Author: Visit Amazon’s Tony Dokoupil Page | Language: English | ISBN: 0307739481 | Format: PDF, EPUB

The Last Pirate: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana – January 6, 2015
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• Paperback: 272 pages


• Publisher: Anchor; Reprint edition (January 6, 2015)


• Language: English


• ISBN-10: 0307739481


• ISBN-13: 978-0307739483


• Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.8 x 8 inches


• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)


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Amazon com Customer Reviews The Last Pirate A Father Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for The Last Pirate A Father His Son His Son and the Golden Age of Marijuana by Tony Dokoupil is an edgy The Last Pirate A Father His Son and the Golden Age Paperback Hardcover A haunting and often hilarious memoir of growing up in 80s Miami as the son of Big Tony To his fellow smugglers The Last Pirate A Father His Son and the Golden Age Tony Dokoupil The Last Pirate A Father His Son and the Golden Age of Marijuana ISBN 0385533462 2014 EPUB 272 pages 2 MB Tony Dokoupil The Last Pirate The Last Pirate A Father His Son and the Golden Age The Last Pirate A Father His Son and the Golden Age of Marijuana Buy from Amazon Author Tony Dokoupil Published 2014 marijuana Comments Share

I first heard about this book when Terry Gross interviewed the author on “Fresh Air.” I just had to read this book. And it is a wonderful read–and memoirs are often not that much fun to read.
The author was 30 years old when he discovered that his father was not an antique dealer in Vermont, found this out after he’d become a journalist and used those skills to explore some evidence that his father was, in actuality, a rather notorious marijuana dealer. Note that the senior Tony Dokoupil dealt only in marijuana and did so at the historical moment when an increasing number of post-Vietnam Americans began to imbibe!
The writer saw little of his father, but instead lived with his mother who knew all along what her former-husband was up to. And what he was up to was handling on the wholesale market tons and tons and tons of bailed marijuana, first from Mexico and later from Colombia.
Maybe some of my fascination of this story relates to place. I was raised in Vermont and actually used to buy antiques. So I knew several antique dealers. Then in the 90s my domestic partner and I moved to Key West. Later we would move to South Beach. And those are the places where the subject of this memoir spent much of his time transporting and selling his product. The way it is portrayed in this memoir is just fun to read.
I love the tone of this memoir, a son who is not condemning but at moments in the writing sees the humor of the life of his father–and of his mother who took her son to New Mexico to dig up a bunch of money the dealer had buried there. Let’s face it, a dealer just doesn’t walk into a bank with bundles of money to deposit.
Eventually he is caught. And what happens and how he got a rather reduced sentence is also fascinating.
This is just a great read.

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