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Spirits Of America - A Social History Of Alcohol (Hardcover, New)
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Spirits Of America - A Social History Of Alcohol (Hardcover, New)
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\u0022Thousands of years ago, before Christ or Buddha or
Muhammad...before the Roman Empire rose or the Colossus of Rhodes
fell,\u0022 Eric Burns writes, \u0022people in Asia Minor were
drinking beer.\u0022 So begins an account as entertaining as it is
extensive, of alcohol's journey through world-and, more important,
American-history. In The Spirits of America, Burns relates that
drinking was \u0022the first national pastime,\u0022 and shows how
it shaped American politics and culture from the earliest colonial
days. He details the transformation of alcohol from virtue to vice
and back again, how it was thought of as both scourge and medicine.
He tells us how \u0022the great American thirst\u0022 developed
over the centuries, and how reform movements and laws (some of
which, Burn s says, were \u0022comic masterpieces of the
legislator's art\u0022) sprang up to combat it. Burns brings back
to life such vivid characters as Carrie Nation and other crusaders
against drink. He informs us that, in the final analysis,
Prohibition, the culmination of the reformers' quest, had as much
to do with politics and economics and geography as it did with
spirituous beverage. Filled with the famous, the infamous, and the
undeservedly anonymous, The Spirits of America is a masterpiece of
the historian's art. It will stand as a classic chronicle-witty,
perceptive, and comprehensive-of how this country was created by
and continues to be shaped by its everchanging relationship to the
cocktail shaker and the keg.
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