Osvaldo Lopez

The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition is a poorly chosen title

for this book because W.J. Rorabaugh cannot associate the term
Alcoholic to a republic of people who have just begun to experiment
with alcohol.

William Rorabaugh graduated from the University of Stanford, then

went on to receive his Ph.D in American History at U.C. Berkeley. The
first book he ever wrote was The Alcoholic Republic: An American
Tradition back in 1979. He then goes on to write a book about the
decline in the institution of apprenticeship amid rising egalitatian
ideology and the impact of the Market Revolutions massive economic
changes.1 Rorabaugh writes a third book Berkeley at War: the 1960s,
that examined student restlessness, white radicalism, black radicalism,
and the counterculture.2
He states that , while I have retained a fondness for the Early
Republic, most of my research and a good bit of my teaching in recent
years have been focused on the 1960s3 He is currently a professor at
the University of Washington where he teaches history classes and is
working on a book length study of the 1960s counterculture.

1 rorabough website of washington

2 website
3 website

The book The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition gives you the
vision that Americans between 1790 and 1830 drank more alcoholic
beverages per person than ever before or since.4