Spirits Of America: A Social History Of Alcohol
By (author): "Eric Burns"
Publish Date:
September 1st 2003
ISBN1592132693
ISBN139781592132690
AsinSpirits Of America: A Social History Of Alcohol
Original titleThe Spirits Of America: A Social History of Alcohol
Details the transformation of alcohol from virtue to vice and back again, how it was thought of as both scourge and medicine. This title tells us how the great American thirst developed over the centuries, and how reform movements and laws (some of which, the author says, were comic masterpieces of the legislator's art) sprang up to combat it.