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200 14$aThe spirits of America$b[electronic resource] $ea social history of alcohol /$fEric Burns
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215   $a1 online resource (345 p.)
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 321-326) and index.
327   $aContents; Introduction: The Spirits of the World; 1 The First National Pastime; 2 The General and the Doctor; 3 The Father of Prohibition and Other Kinfolk; 4 The Crusaders and Their Crusades; 5 The Importance of Being Frank; 6 Hatchetation; 7 The Wheeler-Dealer and His Men; 8 The Blues and How They Played; 9 Executive Softness; 10 The Hummingbird Beats the Odds; Epilogue: Strange Bedfellows; Acknowledgments; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
330   $a""Thousands of years ago, before Christ or Buddha or Muhammad...before the Roman Empire rose or the Colossus of Rhodes fell,"" Eric Burns writes, ""people in Asia Minor were drinking beer."" So begins an account as entertaining as it is extensive, of alcohol's journey through world-and, more important, American-history.  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, how it was
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