|
Essay Archive - The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition
The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition
The author of The Alcoholic Republic began researching this book to find out what prompted so many to attack alcohol consumption in the early nineteenth-century. W.J Rorabaugh found statistics, in his research, to support his idea that the Temperance Movement was “launched as a response to a period of exceptionally hearty drinking” (ix). Though there were many factors that contributed to an increase in alcohol consumption and society widely accepted it, the fact is that America as ....
|
