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Peter Thompson. Rum Punch and Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia. (Early American Studies.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1999. Pp. 265. Cloth $42.50, paper 18.50.

"Virtue and Safety in Wine-bibbing's found, While all that drink Water deserve to be drown'd." These verses from Benjamin Franklin's 1745 drinking song remind us of the importance of alcohol in early America. Indeed, there could be no "good living," Franklin maintained, "where there is not good drinking." Based on the enormous quantity of liquor they consumed, thousands of eighteenth-century Americans apparently agreed, as we have learned from W. J. Rorabaugh, The Alcoholic Republic, An American Tradition (1979), and Mark Edward Lender and James Kirby Martin, Drinking in America: A History (1982). . . .

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