Table of Contents
Prologue 1
Chapter 1 The Mayflower: A Good Creature of God 10
Chapter 2 The American Revolution, the Taverns of the New World 28
Chapter 3 Paul Revere: "The British Are Coming!" 46
Chapter 4 Alexander Hamilton and the Whiskey Rebellion, John and Abigail Adams's Sons and Grandsons 65
Chapter 5 Johnny Appleseed, the American Dionysus 88
Chapter 6 The Civil War 107
Chapter 7 The Great American West 125
Chapter 8 The End of the Nineteenth Century and the New Temperance Crusaders 137
Chapter 9 Prohibition 141
Chapter 10 The Writer's Vice 158
Chapter 11 Senator Joseph McCarthy and the Cold War 171
Chapter 12 A Few Seconds 182
Chapter 13 President Richard Nixon 1968-1973: "Our Drunken Friend" 196
Chapter 14 Recovery 208
Conclusion 216
Notes 223
Bibliography 237
Index 249