{"id":9853,"date":"2015-07-08T19:51:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T23:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9853"},"modified":"2015-07-08T19:53:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T23:53:30","slug":"one-nation-under-the-influence-i-review-a-national-archives-show-on-us-boozin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/07\/one-nation-under-the-influence-i-review-a-national-archives-show-on-us-boozin.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;One Nation, Under the Influence&#8221;: I review a National Archives show on US Boozin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>for The American Interest:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSpirited Republic: Alcohol in American History,\u201d on exhibit at the National Archives through January 10, is a lot like a 2 a.m. barroom yarn: rambling, studded with odd and fascinating moments, but lacking the one thing that might make it all make sense. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpirited Republic\u201d is organized mostly-chronologically. The opening sections make creative use of the archival material to tell the story of alcohol\u2019s role in early American civic history: A reproduction of George Caleb Bingham\u2019s 1852 painting \u201cThe County Election\u201d shows drunk men nodding off at the polls while a swing voter asks for a bribe; a medical dispensary\u2019s records show the brandy, wine, and whiskey prescribed to soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>This show is a strangely official, utilitarian history of the world\u2019s most beloved intoxicant. The benefits of alcohol explored in it are largely commercial and medical or quasi-medical. Alcohol pacified and motivated the troops, from the Founding through World War II. A 1780 petition from a man who rejoiced in the name of Gossinus Eketens asked the Continental Congress to provide the army with whiskey. Alcohol taxes fueled the new government\u2014the Whiskey Rebellion gets a short and neutral depiction, with a letter from George Washington ordering strict prosecution of the rebellious farmers\u2014and the show includes two letters from distillers asking for governmental help in opening up foreign markets for trade. (How <em>does<\/em> Kentucky liquor get to Oman and Samoa? This show answered a question I never thought to ask.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-american-interest.com\/2015\/07\/08\/one-nation-under-the-influence\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a>\u2013Prohibition vs families, Jimmy Carter toasts the Shah, and a letter from Johnny Cash. Also: PEOPLE LIKE GETTING DRUNK. Am I the only one who sees this?!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for The American Interest: \u201cSpirited Republic: Alcohol in American History,\u201d on exhibit at the National Archives through January 10, is a lot like a 2 a.m. barroom yarn: rambling, studded with odd and fascinating moments, but lacking the one thing that might make it all make sense. \u2026 \u201cSpirited Republic\u201d is organized mostly-chronologically. 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