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The prohibition hangover : alcohol in America from demon rum to cult cabernet / Garrett Peck.
LIBRA HV5089 .P364 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peck, Garrett.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States.
- Prohibition--United States.
- Prohibition.
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages--United States--History.
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Alcohol in America from demon rum to cult cabernet
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009.
- Summary:
- The Prohibition Hangover examines the modern American temperament toward drink amid the $189-billion- dollar-a-year industry that defines itself by the production, distribution, marketing, and consumption of alcoholic beverages. Based on primary research, including hundreds of interviews, Garrett Peck provides a panoramic assessment of alcohol in American culture and history.
- Contents:
- The noble experiment
- So what are we drinking?
- Whiskey and rye
- Ninety-nine bottles of beer
- The golden age of wine
- The Supreme Court decides
- Alcohol and your health
- What would Jesus drink?
- Beating the temperance drum
- Not until you're twenty-one.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-293) and index.
- Local Notes:
- HSP Copy: HSP Historic Culinary Arts Collection
- HSP Historic Culinary Arts Collection
- ISBN:
- 9780813545929
- 0813545927
- OCLC:
- 291193011
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