Vice Capades

Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present

By: Mark Stein

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Hardcover | 1 July 2017

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304 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 2.06

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From the illegality of bowling in colonial America to violent video games and synthetic drugs, Vice Capades by best-selling author Mark Stein examines the nation's relationship with the actions, attitudes, and antics that have defined morality. This comprehensive, yet humorous, history reveals that our views of vice are not merely formed by morals but by power. By viewing a variety of vices across the span of American history, Vice Capades brings into focus the nation's inconsistent moral compass and helps us understand shifts in laws to combat vice by revealing who and what wields power (often invisibly) in the United States. While laws against such things as nude dancing have become less restrictive, restrictive laws have been enacted against sexual harassment. While marijuana is no longer illegal in numerous jurisdictions, restrictive laws have been enacted against cigarettes. Stein examines how this nation's inconsistent moral compass has consistently pointed to every era's powers-that-be and enables us to view shifts in the power structure taking place before the public became aware of particular laws against vice and who determines what is or is not deemed vice. From the Puritans who founded Massachusetts with unyielding, biblically based moral laws to those who are currently campaigning against video game violence, Vice Capades provides new insights into important trends in American history and how those events, episodes, and behaviors shaped the nation into what it is today.

Industry Reviews

"In Vice Capades: Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present author Mark Stein utilizes a humor-based approach to tracing the lengthy history of vice control in the United States."-Steven Block, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books
"Vice Capades exposes our racist and sexist history but reads like a Jon Stewart segment."-Marianne Noble, author of The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature

"Mark Stein once again shines brilliant light on who we really are as a nation and people."-Mark Olshaker, coauthor of Mindhunter and Law and Disorder
"This is classic Mark Stein: funny and wise and full of verve. An erudite and fun read."-Bob Davis, coauthor of Prosperity

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