Title: Drinking in America : our secret history /
Authors: Cheever, Susan,
Year: 2015
Subjects: Drinking customs United States History.; Drinking customs; United States
Abstract: 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.
Contents: 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.