How Alcohol Acted as a Catalyst for American Independence

In the summer of 1784, Alexander Hamilton sat down in New York to write one of the stranger letters of his early legal career. The recent peace had allowed transatlantic wine commerce to restart, British blockades had vanished, and claret could once again reach the palates of…

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