The New Temperance: The American Obsession with Sin and Vice

By David Wagner

The war on drugs ? the campaigns against smoking cigarettes ? v-chips to control what children watch on TV ? censoring the Internet and Calvin Klein jeans ads?bipartisan lectures about the dangers of teen sex ? constant warnings about food and fat ? all are examples of what David Wagner terms the ?New Temperance.?The New Temperance contrasts the ne

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367318792
• ISBN13: 9780367318796
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"