The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition The author of The Alcoholic Republic began researching this book to find out what prompted so many to attack alcohol consumption in the early nineteenth-century. W.J Rorabaugh found statistics, in his research, to support his idea that the Temperance Movement was “launched as a response to a period of exceptionally hearty drinking” (ix). Though there were many factors that contributed to an increase in alcohol consumption and society widely accepted it, the fact is that America as a nation at this time did have a dangerous drinking problem. The author used numerous primary sources and statistical information to back up his theses that Americans were exceptionally hearty drinkers. Reports of alcohol consumption contained in the U.S. Census, Statistical Abstract (1921) were used. Early temperance literature, fo....

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