The Vice Capades: Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (784 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1515960560 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 496 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Vice Capades exposes our racist and sexist history but reads like a Jon Stewart segment. ---Marianne Noble, author of The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature
While marijuana is no longer illegal in numerous jurisdictions, restrictive laws have been enacted against cigarettes. This comprehensive, yet humorous, history reveals that our views of vice are not merely formed by morals but by power. From the illegality of bowling in colonial America to violent video games and synthetic drugs, Vice Capades by bestselling author Mark Stein examines the nation's relationship with the actions, attitudes, and antics that have defined morality. By viewing a variety of vices across the span of American history, Vice Capades brings into focus the nation's inconsistent moral compass and helps us understand shifts in laws to combat vice by revealing who and what wields power (often invisibly) in the United States. While laws against such things as nude dancing have become less restrictive, restrictive laws have been enacted agains
Visit him at drummondvoice. . He has garnered multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as an Audie Award nomination. Mark Stein is an American author, screenwriter, and playwright. He is the author of American Panic, How the States Got Their Shapes, a New York Times bestseller that went on to become the basis for the History Channel series of the same name, an