Reason.tv: Garrett Peck on The Prohibition Hangover

Reason.tv's Nick Gillespie sat down with Garrett Peck, author of the new history The Prohibition Hangover: Alcohol in America From Demon Rum to Cult Cabernet (Rutgers University Press).

A wide-ranging social history that begins with the end of Prohibition and runs up to the current craze over great domestic wines and small-batch spirits, The Prohibition Hangover helps explain why Americans continue to have such an ambivalent relationship toward drinking. Engaging, well-written, and packed with an infinite number of fascinating interviews and historical anecdotes, The Prohibition Hangover is required reading for anyone interested in understanding the past 80 years of American business and culture.

For Peck's official site, go here.

To buy the book, go here.

Related Reason.tv videos include Beer: An American Revolution and Jerome Tuccille on "Gallo Be Thy Name."

Comments

[SugarFree]

Saturday's the only true libertarian holiday left.

Celebrate Repeal Day in style.

[Beezard]

Everyday is Repeal Day for me.

[The Gobbler]

Hell yes.

[Ratko]

Ditto that.

[pmp]

So! Does this make us, overall, more or less optimistic about the timeline and implementation for the repeal and replacement of marijuana prohibition?

[JAson Beeno]

Personally, I think that this dude is WAY too full of himself.

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[T]

Ambivalent relationship towards drinking? I'll drink to that!

[Ratko]

In a more perfect world the only 12 step program would be for teetotalers and single drug supremacists (people who give unsolicited lectures on the evils of drinking while they have a few bong hits, for example) to help them to recover from their addiction to being self rightous a-holes.

[freeman]

Mr. Peck started the interview a bit shaky but cleaned it up by the end. GJ

[abercrombie milano]

My only point is that if you take the Bible straight, as I'm sure many of Reasons readers do, you will see a lot of the Old Testament stuff as absolutely insane. Even some cursory knowledge of Hebrew and doing some mathematics and logic will tell you that you really won't get the full deal by just doing regular skill english reading for those books. In other words, there's more to the books of the Bible than most will ever grasp. I'm not concerned that Mr. Crumb will go to hell or anything crazy like that! It's just that he, like many types of religionists, seems to take it literally, take it straight...the Bible's books were not written by straight laced divinity students in 3 piece suits who white wash religious beliefs as if God made them with clothes on...the Bible's books were written by people with very different mindsets.

[nike shox]

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