Rum crash and burn even before they utter their

even before they utter their first word

a renegade

Beach-loving surfer Alberta has been the only Black girl in town for years

and movie-star good looks

" and "How can I stop it from happening

Rum crash and burn even before they utter theirRum arguably shaped the modern world. It was to the eighteenth century what oil is to the present, but its significance has been diminished by a misguided sense of old fashioned morality dating back to Prohibition. In fact, Rum shows that even the Puritans took a shot now and then. Rum, too, was one of the major engines of the American Revolution, a fact often missing from histories of the era. Ian Williams's book as biting and multilayered as the