Drinking in America : our secret history / Susan Cheever.
Cheever, Susan, author.
2015
GT2883.U6 C54 2015 (Mapit)
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Title Drinking in America : our secret history / Susan Cheever.
Author Cheever, Susan, author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9781455513871 (hardcover)
1455513873 (hardcover)
Published New York : Twelve, 2015.
Copyright ©2015
Language English
Description x, 258 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number GT2883.U6 C54 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 394.1/20973
Summary 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.
Cheever chronicles our national love affair with liquor, taking a long, thoughtful look at the way alcohol has changed our nation's history. From the drunkenness of the Pilgrims to Prohibition hijinks, drinking has always been a way to celebrate and a way to grieve and a way to take the edge off. At many pivotal points in our history alcohol has acted as a catalyst. Discover the volatile ambivalence within our nation's tumultuous affair with alcohol.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-244) and index.
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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.

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