Glass and gavel : the U.S. Supreme Court and alcohol / Nancy Maveety.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maveety, Nancy (Author)
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019]
Subjects:
United States. > Supreme Court > Officials and employees > Alcohol use.
United States. > Supreme Court.
Liquor laws.
Liquor laws > United States > History.
Judges > Alcohol use > United States.
United States.
LAW / General.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:x, 367 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Preface and introduction : a cocktail [book] of decisions
  • Prologue : early times and the early Supreme Court
  • The Marshall era of punch and the public house
  • The long Taney era of the mint julep
  • The Chase era : taxing times
  • The Waite era of the grand political saloon
  • The Fuller era : a gilded age of cocktails
  • The White era and the prohibition amendment
  • The Taft era of law, order, and bootlegging
  • The gin cocktail party of the Hughes era
  • The Stone era : rumbustion
  • The old-fashioned Vinson era
  • The Warren era : swanky swilling
  • The Burger era : twilight of the cocktail lounge
  • The Rehnquist era of neotemperance
  • The retro Roberts era : running a tab
  • Epilogue : a return to normalcy cocktail.