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    The Vice Capades: Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present
    The Vice Capades: Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present
    The Vice Capades: Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present
    Audiobook8 hours

    The Vice Capades: Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present

    Written by Mark Stein

    Narrated by David Drummond

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    From the illegality of bowling in colonial America to violent video games and synthetic drugs, Vice Capades by bestselling author Mark Stein examines the nation's relationship with the actions, attitudes, and antics that have defined morality. This comprehensive, yet humorous, history reveals that our views of vice are not merely formed by morals but by power. By viewing a variety of vices across the span of American history, Vice Capades brings into focus the nation's inconsistent moral compass and helps us understand shifts in laws to combat vice by revealing who and what wields power (often invisibly) in the United States. While laws against such things as nude dancing have become less restrictive, restrictive laws have been enacted against sexual harassment. While marijuana is no longer illegal in numerous jurisdictions, restrictive laws have been enacted against cigarettes. Stein examines how this nation's inconsistent moral compass has consistently pointed to every era's powers-that-be and enables us to view shifts in the power structure taking place before the public became aware of particular laws against vice and who determines what is or is not deemed vice.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateAug 8, 2017
    ISBN9781515980568
    The Vice Capades: Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present
    Author

    Mark Stein

    Mark Stein is a playwright and screenwriter. His plays have been performed off-Broadway and at theaters throughout the country. His films include Housesitter, with Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn. He has taught writing and drama at American University and Catholic University and lives in Washington, D.C.

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      An uneven but generally interesting examination of America's uneasy relationship with the range of pleasurable activities clumped under the broad heading of "vice." Governmental and popular efforts to suppress such activities have generally produced poor results