James Graham (1)

Intriguing book finding alcohol behind much of human history. Outlines the tendency of alcoholics to lie, be violent, egotistical, and sometimes to murder. Then goes over the stories of all the notorious violent drunks he can find.
Certain sure signs of alcoholism enable him to identify it where historians have missed out. Remembering your first drink, morning drinking, FH of it, benders, (going absent and boozing), blackouts, superficial emotions, amazing tolerance of booze. Then he labels show more various people in history as alcoholics, when others have mistaken them as heavy drinkers. He feels there is a characteristic psychology of alcoholics.
IN particular Alcoholism causes egomania.
Alcoholics find alcohol very stimulating.
Is alcoholism a sufficient explanation for Stalin's outrages? And Alexanders, and Ivan the Terrible's? Is alcoholism a disease, or just the end of a spectrum of drinking? show less