Mead of the Bell Beaker Culture (c. 2800–1800 BCE). The earliest surviving description of mead is in the hymns of the "Rigveda", one of the sacred books of the historical Vedic religion and (later) Hinduism dated around 1700–1100 BC. During the Golden Age of ancient Greece, mead was said to be the preferred drink. Aristotle (384–322 BCE) discussed mead in his "Meteorologica" and elsewhere, while Pliny the Elder (23–79 CE) called mead "militites" in his "Naturalis Historia" and differentiated wine sweetened with honey or "honey-wine" from mead. The Hispanic-Roman naturalist Columella gave a recipe for mead in "De re rustica", about
Walter Russell Mead and attention since the candidacy and election of President Donald Trump, in particular because of former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon's references to Jackson and comparisons of Jackson to Trump. The "New York Times" has speculated that Bannon drew inspiration from Mead's description of Jacksonianism in "Special Providence". In Mead's recent interview with "Politico", he was dubbed the "Trump Whisperer" by the author Susan Glasser. Mead's first book, "", was published in 1987. Mead highlights what he sees as the failures of American neoimperialism in the Cold War, arguing that American policy under Nixon and Carter had stifled sustainable