One for the Road

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9781421407746

Drunk Driving since 1900

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By Barron H. Lerner
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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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248

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: What's the Harm?
1. The Discovery of Drunk Driving
2. Science and Government Enter the Fray
3. The MADD Mothers Take Charge
4. The Movement Matures and Splinters
5. Lawyers, Libertarians, and the Liquor LobbyFight Back
6. More (and More) Tragedies
Afterword
Notes
Index

""Well written and passionately argued, the text explores how Americans' historic ""love of alcohol, love of driving, and more abstractly, love of freedom and individual liberties"" spawned a complex, centurylong, and at times self-defeating battle with drunk drivers.""

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