Intoxicating Pleasures
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Intoxicating Pleasures

The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey after Prohibition

  1. 380 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Intoxicating Pleasures

The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey after Prohibition

About this book

In popular memory the repeal of US Prohibition in 1933 signaled alcohol’s decisive triumph in a decades-long culture war. But as Lisa Jacobson reveals, alcohol’s respectability and mass market success were neither sudden nor assured. It took a world war and a battalion of public relations experts and tastemakers to transform wine, beer, and whiskey into emblems of the American good life. Alcohol producers and their allies—a group that included scientists, trade associations, restaurateurs, home economists, cookbook authors, and New Deal planners—powered a publicity machine that linked alcohol to wartime food crusades and new ideas about the place of pleasure in modern American life. In this deeply researched and engagingly written book, Jacobson shows how the yearnings of ordinary consumers and military personnel shaped alcohol’s cultural reinvention and put intoxicating pleasures at the center of broader debates about the rights and obligations of citizens. 
 

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Table of contents

  1. Series Page
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Part One. Charting Alcohol’s Path to Redemption
  10. Part Two. The Politics of Pleasure
  11. Epilogue: The Power and Limits of Reinvention
  12. Abbreviations
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index