November 1972 Issue [The Easy Chair] A dirge for DeVoto and the new heresy of light whiskey Download PDF Adjust Share by John Fischer, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 20th century Bernard Augustine De Voto United States Whiskey Whiskey industry More from John Fischer Ugliness and Tension The question for the arriving generation is not whether our society is imperfect (we can take that for granted), but how to deal with that imperfection. So far as I… From “Letter from Leete’s Island Field notes on the manners, morals, and customs of the Connecticut Yankee," January 1969 From “Letter to a new leftist, from a tired liberal,” March 1966 Adjust Share