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Susan Cheever
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In Drinking in America, best-selling author Susan Cheever chronicles our national love affair with liquor, taking a long, thoughtful look at the way alcohol has changed our nation's history. This is the often-overlooked story of how alcohol has shaped American events and the American character from the 17th to the 20th century.
Seen through the lens of alcoholism, American history takes on a vibrancy and a tragedy missing from many earlier accounts. From the drunkenness of the Pilgrims to Prohibition hijinks, drinking has always been a cherished American custom: a way to celebrate and a way to grieve and a way to take the edge off. At many pivotal points in our history - the illegal Mayflower landing at Cape Cod, the enslavement of African Americans, the McCarthy witch hunts, and the Kennedy assassination, to name only a few - alcohol has acted as a catalyst.
Some nations drink more than we do, some drink less, but no other nation has been the drunkest in the world, as America was in the 1830s, only to outlaw drinking entirely a hundred years later. Both a lively history and an unflinching cultural investigation, Drinking in America unveils the volatile ambivalence within one nation's tumultuous affair with alcohol.
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By the time he was 30, Dr. Benjamin Rush had signed the Declaration of Independence, edited Common Sense, toured Europe as Benjamin Franklin’s protégé, and become John Adams’s confidant, and was soon to be appointed Washington’s surgeon general. And as with the greatest Revolutionary minds, Rush was only just beginning his role in 1776 in the American experiment.
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The narration problem can be corrected
- De Sandra L. en 09-27-18
De: Stephen Fried
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City of Sedition
- The History of New York City During the Civil War
- De: John Strausbaugh
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
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No city was more of a help to Abraham Lincoln and the Union war effort - or more of a hindrance. No city raised more men, money, and matériel for the war, and no city raised more hell against it. It was a city of patriots, war heroes, and abolitionists but simultaneously a city of antiwar protest, draft resistance, and sedition. Without his New York supporters, it's highly unlikely Lincoln would have made it to the White House.
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Read twice...post election antidote
- De Pianoman en 12-02-16
De: John Strausbaugh
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David Crockett: The Lion of the West
- De: Michael Wallis
- Narrado por: John Pruden
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His name was David Crockett. He never signed his name any other way, but popular culture transformed his memory into "Davy Crockett", and Hollywood gave him a raccoon hat he hardly ever wore. Best-selling historian Michael Wallis casts a fresh look at the frontiersman, storyteller, and politician behind these legendary stories.
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Author is very bias.
- De Michael en 05-31-12
De: Michael Wallis
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Our Man in Charleston
- Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South
- De: Christopher Dickey
- Narrado por: Antony Ferguson
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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The unlikely man at the roiling center of this intrigue was Robert Bunch, an American-born Englishman who had maneuvered his way to the position of British consul in Charleston, South Carolina, and grew to loathe slavery and the righteousness of its practitioners. Bunch used his unique perch and boundless ambition to become a key player, sending reams of dispatches to the home government and eventually becoming the Crown's best secret source on the Confederacy.
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Not a spy novel
- De Michael Battle en 06-21-16
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South (and Why it Will Rise Again)
- De: Clint Johnson
- Narrado por: Dianna Dorman
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With its emphasis on traditional values, family, faith, military service, good manners, small government, and independent-minded people, the South should certainly rise again. Far from being the backwater of prejudice and ignorance that the liberal media would have you believe, the South has always been the center of American culture.
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Tubby Bearded Guy reference earned an extra star
- De Ed en 09-30-17
De: Clint Johnson
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King Leopold's Ghost
- A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
- De: Adam Hochschild
- Narrado por: Geoffrey Howard
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
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In the late 1890s, Edmund Dene Morel, a young British shipping company agent, noticed something strange about the cargoes of his company's ships as they arrived from and departed for the Congo. Incoming ships were crammed with valuable ivory and rubber. Outbound ships carried little more than soldiers and firearms. Correctly concluding that only slave labor could account for these cargoes, Morel almost singlehandedly made this slave-labor regime the premier human rights story in the world.
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Fascinating
- De Edith en 01-20-11
De: Adam Hochschild
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The First Kennedys
- The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty
- De: Neal Thompson
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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Their Irish ancestry was a hallmark of the Kennedys’ initial political profile, as JFK leveraged his working-class roots to connect with blue-collar voters. Today, we remember this iconic American family as the vanguard of wealth, power, and style rather than as the descendants of poor immigrants. Here at last, we meet the first American Kennedys, Patrick and Bridget, who arrived as many thousands of others did following the Great Famine—penniless and hungry. Less than a decade after their marriage in Boston, Patrick’s sudden death left Bridget to raise their children single-handedly.
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Fascinating and inspiring
- De tejanomusic en 04-03-22
De: Neal Thompson
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The President and the Assassin
- McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
- De: Scott Miller
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 13 h y 58 m
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In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin's bullet shattered the nation's confidence. The shocking murder of President William McKinley threw into stark relief the emerging new world order of what would come to be known as the American Century.
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An Ideal History Book for the Audio Format
- De Nelson Alexander en 09-30-11
De: Scott Miller
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The War Lovers
- Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898
- De: Evan Thomas
- Narrado por: Richard Davidson
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
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On February 15, 1898, the USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor. Although there was no evidence that the Spanish were responsible, yellow newspapers such as William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal whipped Americans into frenzy by claiming that Spain's "secret infernal machine" had destroyed the battleship. Soon after, the blandly handsome and easily influenced President McKinley declared war, sending troops not only to Cuba but also to the Philippines.
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A Rather Poor History
- De Paul C. White en 08-17-10
De: Evan Thomas
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New World Coming
- The 1920s and the Making of Modern America
- De: Nathan Miller
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 18 h y 28 m
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Jazz. Bootleggers. Flappers. Talkies. Model T Fords. Lindbergh's history-making flight over the Atlantic. The 1920s was also the decade of the hard-won vote for women, racial injustice, censorship, social conflict, and the birth of organized crime.
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My High School History Class Never Told
- De Charles Stembridge en 06-29-04
De: Nathan Miller
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Last Call
- The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
- De: Daniel Okrent
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
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A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages. Okrent reveals how Prohibition marked a confluence of diverse forces, including the growing political power of the women’s suffrage movement and the fear of small-town, native-stock Protestants that they were losing control of their country to the immigrants of the large cities.
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Very Thorough Historical Review
- De Pierre en 11-12-12
De: Daniel Okrent
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Drinking in America
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- John
- 12-14-15
A Nation of Drunks-But Hey, Whats Wrong WithThat
Would you try another book from Susan Cheever and/or Barbara Benjamin Creel?
Maybe after a couple of drinks.
Would you recommend Drinking in America to your friends? Why or why not?
I would recommend it, but it is a topic that may not appeal to most readers though.
What about Barbara Benjamin Creel’s performance did you like?
Kind of neutral. Nothing stood out as either great or poor.
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
This book is not suited to be a movie. Mostly American history based around our obsession with alcohol.
Any additional comments?
A little dry for my taste. No pun intended.
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- Gary
- 09-04-16
Some what liberal interpretation of history.
Taking drinking in context to historical events, this author opens reader's eyes to a part of history not taught in schools...but it should be.
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- Powell
- 04-01-16
very well written but focuses on well known people
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
..Secret history of celebs. My fault, I think I was looking for something about bootleggers rather than a history of the drinkers who are famous. I consider then to be a small effect of drinking in America.
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- Lauren
- 06-18-23
Informative!
It was a neat little book on a circumscribed topic. I’m glad I read it. I wish it didn’t skip around in time, though.
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- Nick Phillips
- 04-27-19
Informative
Good listen. The book is full of information and from a perspective that seems seldom seen.
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- C. Trunek
- 05-16-17
Enlightening
I was unaware of the part drinking has played in the history of the United States - I am not sure it was as influential as the author declares, but I learned much from her account.
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- Jonny
- 03-09-23
A story about drinking and politics not America
I had really high hopes for this book but the author is clearly liberal and pushes that narrative the entire book. I thought the very beginning was ok but as it progressed it’s just clearly stories about political leaders who she did not like being drunk. Everybody knows politicians get drunk behind closed doors on both sides of the isle, these are stories of one side of that. A lot of what is in the book is also just speculation and not based on hard facts. All in all I would not recommend.
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- Peter Gracia
- 07-16-19
meh
A 30 minute YouTube video would've accomplished the same thing.
Last Call is much better on this topic
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- Dawson Roy Lewis III
- 10-26-15
Revisionist history at its worst
Would you try another book from Susan Cheever and/or Barbara Benjamin Creel?
I applaud Cheever for overcoming her addiction; however, she is clearly not an historian. She approaches American history and specifically watershed moments from the perspective of alcoholism. She proposes heavy-handed reinterpretations of these events while offering scarcely more evidence than the fact that brandy was in the room. She implies, for example, that the Pilgrims on the Mayflower landed in Plymouth rather than their planned destination (near present-day NYC) because were ill-prepared for the New World because they were drunk, not because the waters around Long Island were dangerous, nor because the pilgrims were city-dwelling shop owners who wouldn't have known the first thing about building homes and infrastructure from scratch. The book is riddled with this kind of sloppy research. Very disappointed.
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- Pred2Win
- 11-24-15
Don't bother-
I thought I was getting a history of drinking. while there were some interesting facts, what this book does is allow the author to speculate and draw loose conclusions on why certain events happened. She all but blames the assassination of President Kennedy on the drinking of Secret Service men. She also uses this book as a forum for railing on conservatives as well as Nixon and Bush. I was very disappointed.
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