The New Temperance: The American Obsession with Sin and Vice / Bad Habits: Drinking, Smoking, Taking Drugs, Gambling, Sexual Misbehavior; and Swearing in American History

Appleton, Lynn, Contemporary Drug Problems

The New Temperance: The American Obsession with Sin and Vice, by David Wagner (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1997), $16 paper, $60 cloth.

Bad Habits: Drinking, Smoking, Taking Drugs, Gambling, Sexual Misbehavior, and Swearing in American History, by John Burnham (New York: New York University Press, 1993), $19.50 paper.

The study of drug use was preoccupied with deviance until the realization that deviance was a moving target shifted our attention to "the normal." In 20-century America, normalcy is the cultural property of the metynomic middle class (DeMott, 1990). Like true north on the compass, this class locates the others. Disproportionately powerful in the normative and …

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Publication information: Article title: The New Temperance: The American Obsession with Sin and Vice / Bad Habits: Drinking, Smoking, Taking Drugs, Gambling, Sexual Misbehavior; and Swearing in American History. Contributors: Appleton, Lynn - Author. Journal title: Contemporary Drug Problems. Volume: 25. Issue: 3 Publication date: Fall 1998. Page number: 627+. © 2003 Federal Legal Publications, Inc. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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