02643cam a2200325 4500 468418583 TxAuBib 20201029120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781455579426 1455579424 B00T3E77R8 Amazon efc17aa2-7316-4115-ae53-980b8c955df7 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2106013 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Cheever, Susan. Drinking in America [Libby] : Our Secret History. Grand Central Publishing, 2015. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 508kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 493kB. History. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:In <i>Drinking in America</i>, bestselling author Susan Cheever chronicles our national love affair with liquor, taking a long, thoughtful look at the way alcohol has changed our nation's history. This is the often-overlooked story of how alcohol has shaped American events and the American character from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.<br /> Seen through the lens of alcoholism, American history takes on a vibrancy and a tragedy missing from many earlier accounts. From the drunkenness of the Pilgrims to Prohibition hijinks, drinking has always been a cherished American custom: a way to celebrate and a way to grieve and a way to take the edge off. At many pivotal points in our history-the illegal <i>Mayflower</i> landing at Cape Cod, the enslavement of African Americans, the McCarthy witch hunts, and the Kennedy assassination, to name only a few-alcohol has acted as a catalyst.<br /> Some nations drink more than we do, some drink less, but no other nation has been the drunkest in the world as America was in the 1830s only to outlaw drinking entirely a hundred years later. Both a lively history and an unflinching cultural investigation, <i>Drinking in America</i> unveils the volatile ambivalence within one nation's tumultuous affair with alcohol. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-28 22:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=efc17aa2-7316-4115-ae53-980b8c955df7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=efc17aa2-7316-4115-ae53-980b8c955df7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=efc17aa2-7316-4115-ae53-980b8c955df7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)