When Crack Was KingBy: Donovan X. Ramsey LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A vivid and frank (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a communitys ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic A master class in disrupting a stubborn narrative, a monumental feat for the fraught subject of addiction in Black communities.The Washington Post A poignant and compelling re examination of a tragic