Drinking in America : our secret history / Susan Cheever.

Cheever, Susan.
New York : Twelve, [2015]
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-244) and index.
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.
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.

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