Introduction The Ancient World Chapter One The Old World Chapter Two The Enemies of Tobacco Chapter Three The Politics of Tobacco Chapter Four The Rise of Tobacco Chapter Five Rush to Judgment Chapter Six Ghost, Body and Soul Chapter Seven The Cigarette Chapter Eight The Carry Nation of Tobacco Chapter Nine The Last Good Time Chapter Ten The Case Against Tobacco --- Chapter Eleven The Turning Point --- Epilogue "The Ten O'Clock People" --- Acknowledgments --- Notes --- Bibliography --- Index
From the author of The Spirits of America, an energetic history of tobacco use
Eric Burns is the host of "Fox News Watch" on the Fox News Channel. He was named by the Washington Journalism Review as one of the best writers in the history of broadcast journalism. His other books include The Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol (Temple), Broadcast Blues, The Joy of Books, and Infamous Scribblers.
"entertaining... a fascinating, supremely readable historical account." The Chicago Sun-Times "Burns tells good stories about people's fascination with tobacco, especially as 'smoke,' and understands well the connections between advertising and smoking. His book is especially useful regarding responses to tobacco consumption including revealing account of 19th-century anti-tobacco reform and the scientific and social arguments against it in recent years." Library Journal "A genial social history that backhandedly glorifies this 'first successful American export' while tracing its 'mesmerizing' mystique.Burns is an able writer and researcher." Publishers Weekly Praise for The Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol: "Burns has written a delightful book and an intelligent one. It is easily the best popular history of drink and its enemies in the United States for the period before 1933." The Historian "An entertaining account of one of our most familiar national vices...This is narrative history with a lively, light touch and will likely find a willing audience...The author aims to entertain and inform, and he does both very well." Virginia Quarterly Review
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