Rorabaugh has written a well thought out and intriguing social history of Americas great alcoholic binge that occurred between 1790 and 1830, what he terms a ke
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When The Natural History of Alcoholism was first published in 1983, it was acclaimed in the press as the single most important contribution to the literature on
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