Matthew D. Lassiter.  The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs . Princeton University Press, 2023. In 2014, Philadelphia’s affluent suburbs suffered a shocking revelation. Two young white men—Neil Scott, 25, and Timothy Brooks, 18—had been charged with running a “preppie drug ring,” distributing cocaine, ecstasy, and marijuana. These two, along with nine sub-dealers, provided substances to colleges and high schools across six counties in eastern and central Pennsylvania. Much was made of the fact that Scott and Brooks were graduates of the region’s most prestigious all-boys private school, the Haverford School, where tuition cost upwards of $35,000 a year. “You’re dealing with kids from one of the finest institutions probably in the country,” remarked Montgomery County district attorney Risa Vetri Ferman at a press conference.…