“The first time I drank gin / I thought it must be hair tonic,” he writes, recalling the first time he got drunk as a young man, which led to an unforgettable bout of illness. Levine had yet to turn 15 at the time and writes that he couldn’t have anticipated what lay ahead: acne, the draft and Richard Nixon. “Any wonder we tried gin,” he ruefully declares.
Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times