Reviews for Conflict in Culture: Permissions Versus Controls and Alcohol Use in American Society

The average rating for Conflict in Culture: Permissions Versus Controls and Alcohol Use in American Society based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-11-15 00:00:00 Billy Warren Burns crafts a long yarn about, most centrally, Prohibition in the United States--its proponents and its law-breakers, mostly. While his storytelling is lively, the gender politics here are utterly horrifying (he's a former Fox News guy, unsurprisingly), and despite its title, this book isn't social history. Burns isn't a historian, and clearly knows very little about the kind of camp one claims when you purport to be a social historian. A bit sad that Temple UP's imprimature helps this book look academic, when it's nothing of the sort--Burns explains as much in the first pages. The Introduction and Chapter One are interesting and fairly well-balanced, but the succeding chapters turn wild and bizarre.

Review # 2 was written on 2021-01-08 00:00:00 Oscar Ortega A good, entertaining book. Well written and humorous at times. However, two-thirds of the book is about Prohibition. I was looking for a more total history of drinking and spirits. But if you're interested in Prohibition, it is a thorough history.