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Wadsworth's political career occurred during the upheaval of progressivism, two world wars, the Depression and the New Deal, Korea and the early Cold War. This is the story of his life and career. He was a player in the New York State Republican party before age 30. He served as a U.S. Senator for two terms and a Congressman from 1932 to 1950. His aristocratic heritage made him a strong internationalist and a lifelong advocate of military preparedness by Universal Military Training. As chairman of the Senate Military Affairs during and after WWI, he fought against isolationism and for the UMT. in domestics politics he was a strict consitutional conservative, opposing social or regulatory legislation. His campaign against prohibition, chiefly on constitutional grounds, cost him his Senate seat in 1926. As a Congressman he opposed the Roosevelt and Truman domestic programs, but supported their foreign policy.
This is a new release of the original 1926 edition.
Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The period of prohibition, from 1919 to 1933, marks the fault line between the cultures of Victorian and modern America. In Domesticating Drink, Murdock argues that the debates surrounding alcohol also marked a divide along gender lines. For much of early American history, men generally did the drinking, and women and children were frequently the victims of alcohol-associated violence and abuse. As a result, women stood at the fore of the temperance and prohibition movements and, as Murdock explains, effectively used the fight against drunkenness as a route toward political empowerment and participation. At the same time, respectable women drank at home, in a pattern of moderation at odds with contemporaneous male alcohol abuse. During the 1920s, with federal prohibition a reality, many women began to assert their hard-won sense of freedom by becoming social drinkers in places other than the home. Murdock's study of how this development took place broadens our understanding of the social and cultural history of alcohol and the various issues that surround it. As alcohol continues to spark debate about behaviors, attitudes, and gender roles, Domesticating Drink provides valuable historical context and important lessons for understanding and responding to the evolving use, and abuse, of drink.