How Long to Read Dark Alliance: Movie Tie-In Edition

How Long Does it Take to Read Dark Alliance: Movie Tie-In Edition?

It takes the average reader 10 hours and 3 minutes to read Dark Alliance: Movie Tie-In Edition by Gary Webb

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Major Motion Picture based on Dark Alliance and starring Jeremy Renner, "Kill the Messenger," to be be released in Fall 2014 In August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News reporting the results of his year-long investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in America, specifically in Los Angeles. The series, titled “Dark Alliance,” revealed that for the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to Los Angeles street gangs and funneled millions in drug profits to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras. Gary Webb pushed his investigation even further in his book, Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Drawing from then newly declassified documents, undercover DEA audio and videotapes that had never been publicly released, federal court testimony, and interviews, Webb demonstrates how our government knowingly allowed massive amounts of drugs and money to change hands at the expense of our communities. Webb’s own stranger-than-fiction experience is also woven into the book. His excoriation by the media—not because of any wrongdoing on his part, but by an insidious process of innuendo and suggestion that in effect blamed Webb for the implications of the story—had been all but predicted. Webb was warned off doing a CIA expose by a former Associated Press journalist who lost his job when, years before, he had stumbled onto the germ of the “Dark Alliance” story. And though Internal investigations by both the CIA and the Justice Department eventually vindicated Webb, he had by then been pushed out of the Mercury News and gone to work for the California State Legislature Task Force on Government Oversight. He died in 2004.

How long is Dark Alliance: Movie Tie-In Edition?

Dark Alliance: Movie Tie-In Edition by Gary Webb is 601 pages long, and a total of 150,851 words.

This makes it 203% the length of the average book. It also has 184% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Dark Alliance: Movie Tie-In Edition Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 13 hours and 44 minutes to read Dark Alliance: Movie Tie-In Edition aloud.

What Reading Level is Dark Alliance: Movie Tie-In Edition?

Dark Alliance: Movie Tie-In Edition is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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