Fourteen sociological essays represent constructivist, epidemiological, and ethnographic approaches to the study of drinking, drug use, and related social problems. Particular scrutiny is given to the
A portrait of famed frontiersman Davy Crockett follows his life from his 1786 birth in Tennessee, through his growing fame as a storyteller and sharpshooter, to his political career in Congress and hi
Chronicles the life of Patrick Henry from his childhood on a tobacco plantation in Virginia to the American Revolution, when he spoke the famous words "Give me liberty or give me death," one month bef