num_pages: 344
description: 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 of which, the author says, were comic masterpieces of the legislator's art) sprang up to combat it.
language: English
title: Spirits Of America: A Social History Of Alcohol
titlecomplete: Spirits Of America: A Social History Of Alcohol
genres: History, American History, Food, Booze, Food History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 45
publisher: Temple University Press