Drinking in America : our secret history /
Presents an exploration of the history of drinking in the United States, discussing how alcohol has shaped American history and character from the seventeenth century to the present.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Twelve,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- The Mayflower: a good creature of God
- The American revolution, the taverns of the new world
- Paul Revere: "The British are coming!"
- Alexander Hamilton and the whiskey rebellion, John and Abigail Adams's sons and grandsons
- Johnny Appleseed, the American Dionysus
- The Civil War
- The great American west
- The end of the nineteenth century and the new temperance crusaders
- Prohibition
- The writer's vice
- Senator Joseph McCarthy and the Cold War
- A few seconds
- President Richard Nixon 1968-1973: "our drunken friend"
- Recovery
- Conclusion.