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Home / Authors / Luke Bergmann

Luke Bergmann

African American, Sociology

Luke Bergmann

Luke Bergmann is the director of policy and programs for the Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Use Prevention, Care and Treatment for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. He is the author of Getting Ghost (The New Press). He lives in New York City.

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    Getting Ghost

    Two Young Lives and the Struggle for the Soul of an American City
    Luke Bergmann
    $27.95
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