New book. Sounds pretty good and has a distributist ring to it.
It's apparently about how Miller, Anheuser-Busch, et al. captured the market after WWII. Here's the blog review where I read about it. Unfortunately, I can't tell for certain whether the book celebrates the rise of the Beer Monsters or laments it. I think it's a lament. Excerpt from book's introduction:
[T]his was a time when the major beer powerhouses took control of the brewing industry and, in the grand spirit of American industry, relentlessly quashed the small, independent producers that relied upon local support. This story is about the Americanization of beer, where homogenized brands - grown through a mixture of political clout, industrialization, and marketing might - became the best loved, and most heavily consumed beer brands in the world.
