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The Prohibition Hangover: Alcohol in America from Demon Rum to Cult Cabernet

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The Prohibition Hangover: Alcohol in America from Demon Rum to Cult Cabernet - Peck, Garrett
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In The Prohibition Hangover, Garrett Peck explores the often-contradictory social history of alcohol in America, from the end of Prohibition in 1933 to the twenty-first century. For Peck, Repeal left American society wondering whether alcohol was a consumer product or a controlled substance, an accepted staple of social culture or a danger to society. Today the legal drinking age, binge drinking, the neo-prohibitionist movement led by Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the 2005 Supreme Court decision in Granholm v. Heald ...

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The Prohibition Hangover: Alcohol in America from Demon Rum to Cult Cabernet 2009, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

ISBN-13: 9780813545929

Hardcover