A Brief History of Vice

by Robert Evans

June 2018

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.