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Canada and the United States

John W. Frick. Theatre, Culture and Temperance Reform in Nineteenth-Century America. (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. xiii, 256. $60.00.

Eighteenth and nineteenth-century Americans were prodigious drinkers. Untold numbers of citizens guzzled wine, whiskey, beer, schnapps, brandy, rum, and hard cider, as well as dozens of homemade brews that killed on a regular basis, to escape poverty, to cure or prevent various ailments, to socialize, or to feed the demands of alcoholism, a then-unrecognized disease. Strong drink was a defining ingredient in everyday American life. In 1758, for example, twenty-six-year-old George Washington, running for a House of Burgesses seat, paid out thirty-four of his thirty-seven-pound election coffer to buy liquor for potential voters.

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