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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart Ltd
Publication date
September 30, 2008
Pages
230
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780771088537
ISBN-10
0771088531
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.50 by 8.50 in.
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Published in
Canada
Original list price
$29.99
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: A completely original exploration of abstinence movements in America â from alcohol to sex to meat.
Over the last two hundred years, Americans have sworn off alcohol, masturbation, spicy foods, fatty foods, pickles, coffee, tea, drugs, sex, meat, and more. Even now, America is a country of abstainers: eighty percent donât smoke, forty percent donât drink, three percent donât eat meat, and one-third of all public-school students are taught abstinence-only sex education. In this remarkable new book, critically acclaimed author Jessica Warner examines why Americans abstain â and why they want you to abstain.
With her trademark wit and stunning prose, Warner shows how abstinence and evangelical Protestantism both burst onto the American scene in the early nineteenth century. At that time abstinence was the ultimate liberal ideal, the handmaiden of abolitionists and feminists who gave up liquor and coffee and pickles and everything else that stood in the way of their campaign to make America the promised land. Today, of course, abstinence is synonymous with social conservatives, with people like Jerry Falwell and George W. Bush. How this change happened goes to the very heart of this provocative and original book.
To read The Day George Bush Stopped Drinking is to understand why America has always just said no â and why it always will.
Over the last two hundred years, Americans have sworn off alcohol, masturbation, spicy foods, fatty foods, pickles, coffee, tea, drugs, sex, meat, and more. Even now, America is a country of abstainers: eighty percent donât smoke, forty percent donât drink, three percent donât eat meat, and one-third of all public-school students are taught abstinence-only sex education. In this remarkable new book, critically acclaimed author Jessica Warner examines why Americans abstain â and why they want you to abstain.
With her trademark wit and stunning prose, Warner shows how abstinence and evangelical Protestantism both burst onto the American scene in the early nineteenth century. At that time abstinence was the ultimate liberal ideal, the handmaiden of abolitionists and feminists who gave up liquor and coffee and pickles and everything else that stood in the way of their campaign to make America the promised land. Today, of course, abstinence is synonymous with social conservatives, with people like Jerry Falwell and George W. Bush. How this change happened goes to the very heart of this provocative and original book.
To read The Day George Bush Stopped Drinking is to understand why America has always just said no â and why it always will.
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from McClelland & Stewart Ltd (September 30, 2008)
9780771088537 | details & prices | 230 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.98 lbs | List price $29.99
About: A completely original exploration of abstinence movements in America â from alcohol to sex to meat.
About: A completely original exploration of abstinence movements in America â from alcohol to sex to meat.
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