The calm before the storm.(tranquilizer usage in television industry)(Brief article)

Reason | June 1, 2009| | Copyright

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On his 1950s TV show, Milton Berle jokingly called himself "Uncle Miltown," in praise of the drug that helped him cope with a stressful career. By reminding us of such episodes, The Age of Anxiety (Basic), Andrea Tone's revelatory history of tranquilizers in America, complicates the usual tale of patriarchal oppression, in which greedy pharmaceutical companies profit by keeping housewives placid and subservient. From the beginning, Tone notes, the tranquilizer market was driven by the demands of Americans who used "little peace pills" to ...

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