![]() Publishers Weekly Review With the same ambitious sweep and needle-in-history's-haystack approach of his previous tome on tobacco, Gately takes on all things alcohol. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. Recommended for academic and larger public libraries.-John Charles, Scottsdale P.L., AZ (c) Copyright 2010. Readers needing a basic overview of the general subject of alcohol should be satisfied with Gately's book, but researchers requiring a more detailed history about specific alcoholic beverages such as wine will need to find other books such as Thomas Pinney's A History of Wine in America or Roderick Phillips's A Short History of Wine to be more useful. In his latest breezily entertaining book, Gately, who has also written about another addictive substance in Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization, writes about both the beneficial and the detrimental effects alcohol has had on society while giving readers a concise, chronological history of alcohol throughout time and across the globe. Library Journal Review For thousands of years, the world has both celebrated and cursed alcohol. ![]()
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