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Dr. Lerner's account of the long relationship between the automobile and the beverage-on both a corporate and a consumer level-is dogged, comprehensive and occasionally quite surprising. -- Abigail Zuger, M.D. New York Times 2011 In the libertarian society of the US, Americans acknowledge their rights, which include driving automobiles and consuming alcoholic beverages. Innocuous independently, combined they have plagued the country for over 100 years. Choice 2012

Dr. Lerner's account of the long relationship between the automobile and the beverage-on both a corporate and a consumer level-is dogged, comprehensive and occasionally quite surprising. -- Abigail Zuger, M.D. * New York Times * In the libertarian society of the US, Americans acknowledge their rights, which include driving automobiles and consuming alcoholic beverages. Innocuous independently, combined they have plagued the country for over 100 years. * Choice * 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. -- David Blanke * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *

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Barron H. Lerner is a physician, historian, and professor of medicine and public health at Columbia University. He is the author of Contagion and Confinement: Controlling Tuberculosis along the Skid Road and When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine, both also published by Johns Hopkins, and The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America, winner of the William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine and named a notable book by the American Library Association.

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