| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Lori Rotskoff. Love on the Rocks: Men, Women, and Alcohol in Post-World War II America. (Gender and American Culture.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 307. Cloth $45.00, paper $18.95.

In her imaginatively titled book, Lori Rotskoff skillfully examines the middle-class "alcoholic marriage" in suburban America in the decades surrounding World War II. Because husbands were most often the "problem drinkers" in this setting and era, Rotskoff focuses on their traits, travails, and treatment, albeit always in the context of their troubled unions with long-suffering wives. This emphasis is evident in the dustjacket illustration from the Hollywood classic film, Come Back, Little Sheba (1952), in which a brooding Burt Lancaster, drink in hand, stands with his back turned on the imploring gaze of housewife Shirley Booth. This poignant vignette, reproduced in thousands of American living rooms from the 1930s to the 1960s, lies at the heart of Rotskoff's study.

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