Drinking in America: our secret history

Prologue

The Mayflower : a good creature of God

The American revolution, the taverns of the new world

Paul Revere : "The British are coming!"

Alexander Hamilton and the whiskey rebellion, John and Abigail Adams's sons and grandsons

Johnny Appleseed, the American Dionysus

The Civil War

The great American west

The end of the nineteenth century and the new temperance crusaders

Prohibition

The writer's vice

Senator Joseph McCarthy and the Cold War

A few seconds

President Richard Nixon 1968-1973 : "our drunken friend"

Recovery

Conclusion.