Drinking in America: Our Secret History Cheever 2015 Submitter: I stumbled upon this tome while browsing my local library branch. Now, as a craft beer drinker and writer about said subject, I already own several excellent books on alcoholic drink
Category: Vice Patrol
Vice Patrol refers to posts that concern all matters of sin.
Smoke if you got ’em!
The Cigarette Shortage Federal Trade Commission 1945 Submitter: I found this as I was weeding the government documents at [a university library]. I am glad I did not grow up in the forties. Holly: Want to know more? Here’s the
The Groovy Way to Quit Drinking
Find Your Perfect High Without Mind Altering Substances: Shift Happens, when you train your brain Marshall 1978 Direct from the late 1970s, your solution to alcoholism. Marshall struggled with alcohol and developed his own version of alcohol treatment. The beginning
Sex, Sadism, and Murder
The Wasted Years Stearn 1968 (original copyright 1959) Earlier this year we published a post about teen sex depravity, or what I like to call “nonfiction erotica.” A serious subject is presented with “facts” and reporting that is salacious at
The Gentle Art of Smoking
The Gentle Art of Smoking Dunhill 1954 I had no idea that smoking was an art form. When I first saw the back cover, I wasn’t sure what I was looking at, but my first thought wasn’t pipes. This book
How to Write and Sell Confessions
How to Write and Sell Confessions Feldhake 1980 Submitter: From a large public library that recently weeded the 800s/authorship how to’s. This had circed in the last 5 years, which is surprising considering that these “true confessions” magazines don’t really
Steal This Urine Test
Steal This Urine Test: Fighting Drug Hysteria in America Hoffman 1987 Submitter: Perhaps this would be best described as an awful book cover as the content is (from the bit I’ve browsed) actually a well-organized and well-researched argument against mandatory
Fun and Games at Work
Sexual Harassment at Work Is it just ‘fun and games’? Read 1982 Not a bad book, but unfortunately, the cover absolutely negates the seriousness of the writing (and the topic for that matter). I am sure someone in an editorial