The New Temperance questions the constant mantra in the media and in political debates about the dangers of personal behavior and challenges America's love affair with repression. It reviews the Republican strategy on sin developed in the 1960s and 1970s.
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The New Temperance -- Déjà Vu All Over Again -- Temperance and the Social Construction of Risk -- "The Slippery Slope," or Scaring Them Straight -- Getting "Lean and Mean's": The Middle-Class Return to Respectability -- Manufacturing Consensus: The Politics of Puritanism -- From Loyalty Oaths to Urine Tests