A Brief History of Vice
Next meeting is June 25th.
Quoting from Amazon description:
A celebration of the brave, drunken pioneers who built our civilization one seemingly bad decision at a time,
A Brief History of Vice
explores a side of the past that mainstream history books prefer to hide. History has never been more fun—or more intoxicating.
Guns, germs, and steel might have transformed us from hunter-gatherers
into modern man, but booze, sex, trash talk, and tripping built our
civilization.
Cracked
editor Robert Evans brings his signature
dogged research and lively insight to uncover the many and magnificent
ways vice has influenced history, from the prostitute-turned-empress who
scored a major victory for women’s rights to the beer that helped
create—and destroy—South America's first empire.