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David Nasaw, "The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II" (Penguin, 2025)

12/16/2025 • 55 min

In its duration, geographical reach, and ferocity, World War II was unprecedented, and the effects on those who fought it and their loved ones at home, immeasurable. The heroism of the men and women who won the war may be well documented, but we know too little about the pain and hardships the veterans endured upon their return home. As historian David Nasaw mak… Play episode

Mark Deuze, "Well-Being and Creative Careers: What Makes You Happy Can Als…
Bradley J. Borougerdi, "Cannabis: A Global History" (Reaktion, 2025)
Jonathan S. Jones, "Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America's First …
Meg Bernhard, "Wine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Shoshana Walter, "Rehab: An American Scandal" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
Aileen Teague, "Policing on Drugs: The United States, Mexico, and the Orig…
Katie Herzog, "Drink Your Way Sober: The Science-Based Method to Break Fre…
Susan D. Stewart. "On the Rocks: Straight Talk about Women and Drinking" (…
Susan C. Boyd, "Heroin: An Illustrated History" (Fernwood, 2022)
Melody Glenn, "Mother of Methadone: A Doctor's Quest, a Forgotten History,…
Judith Grisel, "Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction…
Tricia Starks, "Smoking Under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial …
Joseph Gfroerer, "War Stories from the Drug Survey: How Culture, Politics,…
Ben Westhoff, "Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadlie…
Owen Flanagan, "What Is It Like to Be an Addict?: Understanding Substance …
John Lee Hooker Jr., "From the Shadow of the Blues: My Story of Music, Add…
Jonathan D. Cohen, "Losing Big: America's Dangerous Sports Gambling Boom" …
Walls, Warnings, and the War on Fentanyl: Peter Andreas on Trump’s Border …
Alcohol
Emine Ö Evered, "Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identi…
Philip Howell, "Pub" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Patricia A. Roos, "Surviving Alex: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Add…
Michael Ray Richardson, "Banned: How I Squandered an All-Star NBA Career B…
Dayne C. Riley, "Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in Briti…
Benjamin T. Smith, "The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade" …
Lisa Sheryl Jacobson. "Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Be…
Holly M. Karibo, "Rehab on the Range: A History of Addiction and Incarcera…
Aisha M Beliso-de Jesús, "Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the…
Jeffrey M. Pilcher, "Hopped Up: How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a G…
Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color o…
Daniel J. Mallinson and A. Lee Hannah, "Green Rush: The Rise of Medical Ma…
Stuart Anderson, "Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires: Making Med…
Sanaullah Khan, "Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pha…
Camilla Nord, "The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health" (Princeto…
Eli Revelle Yano Wilson, "Handcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy…
Henry H. Work, "Wood, Whiskey and Wine: A History of Barrels"(Reaktion Boo…
Christine Folch, "The Book of Yerba Mate: A Stimulating History" (Princeto…
Claudio Lomnitz, "Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico" (…
Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, "Movies Under the Influence" (U Minnesota Pre…
On Alcohol, Islam, and the Ontic
David Pozen, "The Constitution of the War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
James Mallery, "City of Vice: Transience and San Francisco's Urban History…
Angela Garcia, "The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope i…
John Thomas Maier, "The Disabled Will: A Theory of Addiction" (Routledge, …
Judith Vitale et al., "Drugs and the Politics of Consumption in Japan" (Br…
Benjamin Breen, "Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the …
Adam Zientek, "A Thirst for Wine and War: The Intoxication of French Soldi…
Ryan Reft, "Heroin and Chocolate City: Black Community Responses to Drug A…
Marina Welker, "Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove …

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