Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol by Eric Burns

Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol

Eric Burns

344 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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Details the transformation of alcohol from virtue to vice and back again, how it was thought of as both scourge and medicine. This title tells us how the great American thirst developed over the centuries, and how reform movements and laws (some o...

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