CSPAN3 American History TV August 16, 2014
Welcome, and thank you for coming to the roundtable, with the unwieldy and yet highly evocative title drugs, alcohol, and the gendered and racial experience of addiction in the early republic. I am carolyn eastman, and im pleased to inform you that the subject of this roundtable proved evocative enough that cspan is filming us right now. A fact that gives me an additional opportunity to remind my excellent panelists that they should be recruiting their time it. I was working on a book about a celebrity or writer of the very century, who among other cultural qualities, suffered from addiction t...