Nov 11, 2014
In the more than two-hundred-year history of the American
presidency, there has been one element present in each and every
administration: alcohol.
In the beginning, there was George Washington, who sold whiskey
distilled at Mount Vernon and preferred to quaff a well-crafted
port. More than two hundred years later, Barack Obama beckoned some
master brewers to advise his White House staff on how to make
mouth-watering batches of White House Honey Ale with a key
ingredient from Michelle Obama’s beehives.
And then there was the matter of the forty-two other gentlemen in
between…
Journalist Mark Will-Weber strolls through our country’s memorable
moments—from the Founding Fathers to the days of Prohibition, from
impeachment hearings to diplomatic negotiations—and the role that a
good stiff drink played in them in his new
book, Mint Juleps
with Teddy Roosevelt: The Complete History of Presidential
Drinking.