David Wagner is associate professor of social work and sociology at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of two previous books, including Checkerboard Square (Westview, 1993), winner of the 1993 C. Wright Mills Award.

• The new temperance; DJ vu all over again; temperance and the social construction of risk; the slippery slope, or scaring them straight; getting lean and mean - the middle-class return to respectability; manufacturing consensus - the politics of puritanism; from loyalty oaths to urine tests.

David Wagner is associate professor of social work and sociology at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of two previous books, including Checkerboard Square (Westview, 1993), winner of the 1993 C. Wright Mills Award.

• The new temperance; DJ vu all over again; temperance and the social construction of risk; the slippery slope, or scaring them straight; getting lean and mean - the middle-class return to respectability; manufacturing consensus - the politics of puritanism; from loyalty oaths to urine tests.