The Spirits of America

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  • The Spirits of America Book Detail

  • Author : Eric Burns
  • Release Date : 2004
  • Publisher : Temple University Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 356
  • ISBN 13 : 9781592137695
  • File Size : 63,63 MB
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The Spirits of America by Eric Burns PDF Summary

Book Description: In The spirits of America, Burns relates that drinking was "the first national pastime," 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 and how it was thought of as both scourge and medicine. He tells us how "the great American thirst" developed over the centuries, and how reform movements and laws 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.

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