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Book SynopsisWhy, despite decades and decades of warnings, do people still choose to drive while intoxicated? One for the Road provides crucial historical lessons for understanding the old epidemic of drunk driving and the new epidemic of distracted driving.
Trade ReviewDr. Lerner's account of the long relationship between the automobile and the beverage-on both a corporate and a consumer level-is dogged, comprehensive and occasionally quite surprising. -- Abigail Zuger, M.D. New York Times In the libertarian society of the US, Americans acknowledge their rights, which include driving automobiles and consuming alcoholic beverages. Innocuous independently, combined they have plagued the country for over 100 years. Choice Well written and passionately argued, the text explores how Americans' historic "love of alcohol, love of driving, and more abstractly, love of freedom and individual liberties" spawned a complex, centurylong, and at times self-defeating battle with drunk drivers. -- David Blanke Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: What's the Harm?
1. The Discovery of Drunk Driving
2. Science and Government Enter the Fray
3. The MADD Mothers Take Charge
4. The Movement Matures and Splinters
5. Lawyers, Libertarians, and the Liquor LobbyFight Back
6. More (and More) Tragedies
Afterword
Notes
Index
