The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition by W.J. Rorabaugh

The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition

W.J. Rorabaugh

302 pages hardcover 1979

3 editions

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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This social history documents the great 'alcoholic binge' that occurred between 1790 and 1840, when Americans drank more alcoholic beverages--nearly a halt pint of hard liquor per man per day--than at any other time in American history. American m...

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