![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But the wonder of it is its immense readability." Buy it. Sir Iain Duncan Smith, writing in this newspaper on Monday, observed that the 2019 local elections were dreadful for the Tories, yet they won an 80-seat majority just a few months later. Reviewer Kennedy concludes that "the book is bursting (or should that be overflowing?) with scrupulously researched facts, statistics, historical events and marvellous anecdotes, all of it just as scrupulously acknowledged in endnotes. From the archeological evidence of fermented potables in northern China nearly 10,000 years ago to the notion that American rap culture has been the salvation of France's champagne and cognac industries with its taste for both pricey libations, Drink covers it all: the colour, comedy, catastrophe and controversy. As he did with Tobacco, his earlier cultural history, Gately offers what amounts to nothing less than a history of human civilization. "This is a book to be read with pleasure, best sipped in leisure like good bourbon."īritish author Iain Gately calls alcohol the "equivocal liquid," and his exploration of our love-hate relationship with it is "by turns entertaining, inspiring, sobering, informative and simply fascinating," writes reviewer Janice Kennedy in the Ottawa Citizen. Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol by Iain Gately 3.86 Rating details 743 ratings 75 reviews A spirited look at the history of alcohol from the dawn of civilization to the twenty first century For better or worse, alcohol has helped shape our civilization. ![]() "Thorough, informative, briskly readable, and witty." ![]()
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