Mark Stein

Vice Capades (eBook, PDF)

Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

From outlawing bowling in colonial America to regulating violent video games and synthetic drugs today, Mark Stein's Vice Capades examines the nation's relationship with the actions, attitudes, and antics that have defined morality. This humorous and quirky history reveals that our views of vice are formed not merely by morals but by power. While laws against nude dancing have become less restrictive, laws restricting sexual harassment have been enacted. While marijuana is no longer illegal everywhere, restrictive laws have been enacted against cigarettes. Stein examines this nation's inconsistent moral compass and how the powers-that-be in each era determine what is or is not deemed a vice. From the Puritans who founded Massachusetts with unyielding, biblically based laws to those modern purveyors of morality who currently campaign against video game violence, Vice Capades looks at the American history we all know from a fresh and exciting perspective and shows how vice has shaped our nation, sometimes without us even knowing it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781612349299
• Artikelnr.: 72455811

Autorenporträt

Mark Stein is an author, screenwriter, and playwright. He is the author of several books, including Vice Capades: Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present (Potomac Books, 2017); How the States Got Their Shapes, a New York Times best seller and the basis for the eponymous History Channel series; and American Panic: A History of Who Scares Us and Why.                    

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Inheritance
2. A “Virtue-ly” New Nation
3. “Free at Last” with Liberty and Must-Nots for All Kinds of Stuff
4. Careers in Vice for Crusaders and Purveyors
5. Vices That Roared between World Wars
6. Moola and Ooh-la-la in Burlesque and Film
7. A New Power and New Views of Vice
8. Think Twice about Vice
Notes
Bibliography
Index