The spirits of America : a social history of alcohol / Eric Burns.

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 scou...

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Main Author: Burns, Eric
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2004.
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