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In Sipping in America, best-selling publisher Susan Cheever chronicles our countrywide romance with liquor, going for a long, thoughtful look at the way alcoholic beverages has transformed our nation's history. This is the often-overlooked history of how alcoholic beverages has designed American occasions and the American character from the 17th to the 20th hundred years. Seen through the zoom lens of alcoholism, American history assumes a vibrancy and a tragedy absent from many early on accounts. From drunkenness of the Pilgrims to Prohibition hijinks, drinking alcohol has always been a cherished American custom: a way to celebrate and a way to grieve and a way to take the border off. At many pivotal things in our history - the illegal Mayflower getting at Cape Cod, the enslavement of African Americans, the McCarthy witch hunts, and the Kennedy assassination, to mention only a few - alcoholic beverages has acted as a catalyst. Some nations drink more than we do, some drink less, but no other land has been the drunkest on the planet, as America was at the 1830s, only to outlaw drinking completely a hundred years later. Both a lively history and an unflinching ethnic investigation, Sipping in America unveils the volatile ambivalence within one nation's tumultuous affair with alcoholic beverages.
