Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books
about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Gin tastes like
Christmas to some and rotten pine chips to others, but nearly
everyone familiar with the spirit holds immediate gin nostalgia.
Although early medical textbooks treated it as a healing agent,
early alchemists (as well as their critics) claimed gin’s base
was a path to immortality—and also Satan’s tool. In more recent
times, the gin trade consolidated the commercial and political
power of nations and prompted a social campaign against women. Gin
has been used successfully as a defense for murder; blamed for
massive unrest in 18th-century England; and advertised for as an
abortifacient. From its harshest proto-gin distillation days to the
current smooth craft models, gin plays a powerful cultural role in
film, music, and literature—one that is arguably older, broader,
and more complex than any other spirit. Object Lessons is published
in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
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