Liquor on Sundays
Anthony Grafton: The Week that Was, 17 November 2022
The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms that Made Us Who We Are
by David M. Henkin.
Yale, 264 pp., £20, January,978 0 300 25732 8 Show More
by David M. Henkin.
Yale, 264 pp., £20, January,
“... harsh and inviolable. Even Wilson’s feisty subject timed her pleasures to its unalterable rhythm.David Henkin sets out to discover how Americans became such creatures of the seven-day week. By the time the United States was founded as an independent republic, he writes, North Americans were already ‘by the contemporary standards of Europe ... ”
