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353 “Carry A. Nation, prophetess of God”:
Ibid., p. 211.
353 “the largest missionary field in the world”:
Ibid., p 256.
353 “a school of vice to a great extent”:
Ibid., p. 267.
354 “I now feel that this great wave”:
Ibid., p. 303.
355 “controlled six Congresses”:
Kobler, p. 182.
355 “In America we are making”:
Sinclair, p. 62.
356 “Probably, certainly, more than fifty percent”:
Ibid., p. 64.
356 “I ALCOHOL INFLAMES THE PASSIONS”:
Ibid., p. 65.
356 “From that December day in 1913”:
Kobler, p. 201.
357 “comparatively few alcoholics”:
John Barleycorn, or Alcoholic Memoirs
(1913), Jack London, Signet Classics edition, New York, 1990, p. 17.
357 “let me warm by their fires”:
Ibid., p. 36.
358 “talked with great voices”:
Ibid., p. 37.
358 “All the no-saying and no-preaching”:
Ibid., p. 115.
358 “The trouble I had with the stuff ”:
Ibid., p. 202.
358 “The only rational thing”:
Ibid., p. 115.
27 IN THE CHALK TRENCHES OF CHAMPAGNE
360 “the individual man is in all cases free”:
“Rum in the Trenches,” Tim Cook,
Legion Magazine,
Defence Today, September/October 2002.
360 “It surprises me when”:
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer,
Siegfried Sassoon, Faber and Faber, London, 1997, p. 18.
360 “Under the spell of ”:
Cook.
361 “to take the taste of dead men”:
Ibid.
361 “The gas was phosgene”:
Williams, p. 187.
361 “the ‘No Rum Division’”:
Sassoon, p. 122.
361 “estaminets”:
Her Privates We,
Frederic Manning (1929), Serpent’s Tail edition, London, 1999.
362 “We have the right to get”:
Under Fire,
Henri Barbusse (1916), Penguin Classics edition, Trans. Robin Buss, London 2003, p. 21.
362 “To drink some wine from the South”:
Ibid., p. 128.
362 “there were liberal helpings”:
Storm of Steel
(1920), Ernst Junger, Trans. Michael Hofmann, Penguin Books, London 2003, p. 12.
3
62 “By day, the young people”:
Ibid. p. 16.
363 “such libations after”:
Ibid., p. 140.
363 “Whole industrial societies were”:
The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century,
J. M. Roberts, Penguin, London, 1999, p. 250.
364 “we are fighting Germans, Austrians”:
Cornell, p. 184.
364 “refrain from drinking beer”:
Ibid., p. 187.
365 “harvested like grapes”:
Champagne,
Don and Petie Kladstrup, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 2006, p. 163.
366 “the soberest, cleanest”:
Sinclair, p. 128.
367 “inebriated comics”:
The Doughboys,
Laurence Stallings, Popular Library edition, New York, 1964, p. 106.
367 “I went over to Major Bailey’s”:
Elmer Hess, May 31, 1918, diary online at
www.landscaper.net/ww1memoirs.htm#1st
%20Lieut.%20 Elmer %20Hess,%2015th%20Field%20Artillery.
Soviet prohibition:
A History of Vodka,
William Pokhlebkin, Trans. Renfrey Clarke, Verso, London, 1992.
28 AMPHIBIANS
370 “the dry workers throughout the country”:
Baron, p. 300.
370 “Brewery products fill refrigerator”:
Sinclair, p. 133.
371 “Dear Mr Palmer”:
Baron, p. 305.
371 “around the sangerfests”:
Sinclair, p. 132.
371 “not really enact prohibition”:
Ibid., p. 171.
372 “Every Congressman knows”:
Kobler, p. 210.
373 “a discontent and disregard for law”:
Sinclair, p. 182.
373 “The reign of tears is over”:
The Great Illusion,
Herbert Asbury, Doubleday & Co., New York, 1950, p. 144.
374 “They would come wobbling”:
Kobler, p. 259.
374 “three tremendous popular passions”:
Sinclair, p. 198.
376 “You sent in an order for gin”:
Kobler, p. 249.
377 “There are not many ladies”:
Murdock, p. 110.
377 “It is outrageous”:
Ibid., p. 99.
377 “They are athletic”:
Ibid., p. 110.
377 “the only American invention”:
PJ, p. 707.
378 “dancing academies, drugstores”:
Kobler, p. 234.
379 “Trays with bottles”:
Sinclair, p. 271.
379 “that he did drink occasionally”:
Murdock, p. 99.
379 “compared unfavorably with those of garbage”:
Sinclair, p. 199.
379 “the master mind of the Federal”:
Kobler, p. 297.
380 “The cost and quality of post-Volsteadian”:
Sinclair, p. 251.
380 “science of compelling men to use more”:
“Things Are in the Saddle,” Samuel Strauss,
The Atlantic Monthly,
November 1924, pp. 577-88.
381 stewed to the gills:
“The Lexicon of Prohibition,” Edmund Wilson, March 9, 1927, in
The American Earthquake: A Documentary of the Twenties and Thirties
(1958).
381 “Don’t shoot, I’m not a”:
Sinclair, p. 335.
381 “nearly three million gallons of sacramental wine”:
Ibid., p. 304.
382 “In 1928 one buyer bought 225 carloads”:
“The Volstead Act: Rebirth and Boom,” Ruth Teiser and Catherine Harroun, in
California Wine.
383 “a great social and economic experiment”:
Sinclair, P. 315.
383 “If Al [Smith] wins tomorrow”:
Ibid., p. 318.
384 “I make my money by supplying a public demand”:
The Americans: The Democratic Experience,
Daniel J. Boorstin, Vintage Books, New York, 1974, p. 84.
29 LOST
385 “Wine inspires gaiety, strength, youth”:
Mon Docteur le Vin
(1936), Trans. Benjamin Ivry, Distributed by Yale Unversity Press, New Haven, 2003, p. 11.
385 “That’s what you are. That’s what you all are”:
A Moveable Feast,
Ernest Hemmingway (1936) Arrow Books, 2004, p. 18.
386 “grape varieties hallowed by local”:
PJ, p. 478.
386 “Urban and rural people can”:
Ivry, p. 1.
386 “radioactive properties”:
Ibid., p. 2.
386 “American teetotaller”:
Ibid., p. 6.
386 “If you drink Chablis with your oysters”:
Ibid., p. 4.
387 “We were able to note that among”:
Ibid., p. 18.
387 “Of all the supplies”:
“Wine and Health in France, 1900-1950,” Kim Munholland, in
Alcohol: A Social and Cultural History,
Ed. Mack P. Holt, Berg, Oxford, 2006, p. 77.
387 “the French race would lose”:
Ibid., p. 79.
387 “water tends to thicken”:
Ivry, p. 13.
387 “Wine takes its revenge on those”:
Ibid., p. 14.
387-
88 “Since Prohibition, the Americans”:
Ibid., p. 17.
388 “The exquisite corpse”:
Manifesto of Surrealism,
André Breton, 1924.
388 “Our own nation . . . passed”:
Exile’s Return,
Malcolm Cowley Penguin edition, New York, 1994, p. 47.
388 “In Europe . . . we thought of wine”:
Hemingway, p. 97.
390 “At this time Zelda”:
Ibid., p. 108.
390 “I would give anything if I hadn’t”:
Tender Is the Night,
Scott Fitzgerald, Scribner Paperback Fiction edition, New York, Introduction, p. xv.
391 “The favorite drink at that time”:
The Thirsty Muse: Alcohol and the American Writer,
Tom Dardis, Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1989, p. 42.
392 “brilliant men, beautiful jazz babies,”:
Sinclair, p. 336.
392 “drinking scenes, manufacture or sale of liquor”:
“The Movies and the Wettening of America: The Media as Amplifiers of Cultural Change,” Robin Room,
British Journal of Addiction
83:11-18, 1988.
392 “get on the first train”:
Sinclair, p. 337.
392 “this vivid picture of ultramodern youth”:
Alcohol in the Movies, 1892- 1962,
Judy Cornes, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina, 2006, p. 37.
392 “those who come to laugh”:
Room.
392 “for the vast audience”:
Ibid.
393 “it was the motion picture”:
Ibid.
393 “on the boards of businesses”:
Sinclair, p. 103.
394 “these wet women, though rich most”:
Ibid., p. 358.
395 jake leg: “
Jake Leg: How the Blues Diagnosed a Medical Mystery,” Dan Baum,
New Yorker,
September 15, 2003.
395 “at the time best suited for their adoption”:
Wickersham Report, available online at:
www.drugtext.org/library/reports/wick/Default
. html.
398 “since it was wet below and dry on top”:
Sinclair, p. 386.
398 “first, by reason of the great need”:
Baron, p. 320.
398 “No other state shall take away”:
Kobler, p. 353.
399 “My first in thirteen years”:
Ibid., p. 384.
30 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
401 “It is almost unknown that Hitler”:
The Hitler No-one Knows (Hitler wie ihn keiner kennt)
Heinrich Hoffmann, Berlin: “Zeitgeschichte” Verlag, 1932.
401 “whoever is not bodily and spiritually”:
“A Sober Reich? Alcohol and Tobacco Use in Nazi Germany,” Jonathan Lewy,
Substance Use and Misuse,
41: 1179-95, p. 1186.
401 “whoever suffers from severe alcoholism can be sterilized”:
Ibid., p. 1185.
402 “wine, the pride of France”:
“Mon Docteur le vin, Wine and health in France, 1900-1950,” Kim Munholland, in Holt, p. 84.
403 “in cafés and restaurants on Tuesdays”:
Ibid., p. 139.
404 “Special Cuvée for the Wehrmacht”:
Wine and War: The French the Nazis,and France’s Greatest Treasure,
Don and Petie Kladstrup, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2001, p. 105.
404 “Who cares? It’s not as if ”:
Ibid., p. 93.
404 “a very hot country”:
Ibid., p. 94.
404 “in the old days, the rule was plunder”:
Ibid., p. 54.
405 “The Führer has ordered”:
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide,
Robert Jay Lifton, Macmillan Books, London, 1986, p. 157.
405 “Many members of the Einsatzkommandos”:
Ibid., p. 159.
405 “The selections were mostly”:
Ibid., p. 193.
405 “would ask, ‘How can these thing’ ”:
Ibid., p. 196.
406 “It is the business of the government”:
Cornell, p. 197.
407 “A pub, or public house”:
Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain 1942,
Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1994.
408 “The Germans have . . . drunk the wine”:
Instructions for British Servicemen in France 1944,
Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2005.
409 “American officers are bringing wines”:
“Why War Was Raged over RAF’s Brandy Run, Neil Tweedie,
Daily Telegraph,
March 24, 2004.
410 “Russians are absolutely crazy about vodka”:
Berlin: The Downfall,
1945, Anthony Beevor, Penguin Books, London 2003, p. 36.
410 “Hello my nearest and dearest ones”:
Ibid., p. 349.
411 “the sort used for cheap jewelry”:
Ibid., p. 400.
411 “being carried out feet”:
Whisky,
p. 129.
31 THE BOTTLE
413 “May you have your wish and die in your sleep soon”:
A Moon for the Misbegotten,
Eugene O’Neill, Nick Hern Books edition, London, 1992.
414 “the idea I cherished in my heart”:
Malcolm Lowry, September 1948, preface to the French edition of
Under the Volcano.
414 “Closing his eyes again”:
Under the Volcano,
Malcolm Lowry, Penguin Modern Classics, London, 2000, p. 343.
415 “He is a real Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”:
Ch. 2, Alcoholics Anonymous online:
www.aa.org/bigbookonline/
.
415 “The fact is that most alcoholics”:
Ch. 2, AA.
416 “To anyone who has ever been”:
Jack Alexander,
The Saturday Evening Post,
April 1, 1950.
416 “stress the spiritual feature freely”:
Ch. 7, AA.
418 Vitamin B
3
: “
Niacin and its Amide,” A. Hoffer, MD, Ph.D., text online:
www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_niacin.html
.
422 “Turned out to be willful, difficult”:
Gene Vincent, Mick Farren, Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll, Robinson, London, 2001, p. 46.
422 The evolution of Rock and Roll:
Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock and roll,
Nick Tosches, Da Capo Press edition, New York, 1996.
422 Disease Theory of alcoholism
: “The Cultural Context of Psychological Approaches to Alcoholism,” Stanton Peele,
American Psychologist,
39, 1984, 1337-351.
32 RECONSTRUCTION
425 “to believe in wine [was] a coercive collective act”:
Mythologies,
Roland Barthes, Trans., Annette Lavers, Vintage Books edition, London, p. 59.
427 “Apart from the many other difficulties”:
George Orwell, “As I please,”
Tribune,
August 18, 1944.
430 “Not for him the slow, gracious wandering”:
Lucky Jim,
Kingsley Amis (1954), Penguin Classics edition, London, 2000, p. 61.

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