Book
Drinking in America : our secret history
Record details
- ISBN: 9781455513857
- ISBN: 1455513857
- ISBN: 9781455513864 (ebook)
- ISBN: 9781611135299 (audio download)
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Physical Description:
print
viii, 260 pages ; 20 cm - Edition: First trade paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Twelve, 2016.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes "Reading group guide": pages 247-250. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-243) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Subject: | Drinking customs United States History |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kirtland Community College Library | GT 2883 .U5 C44 2016 | 30775305542210 | General Collection | Available | - |