Author: John MarshPublisher:
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Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Marsh's Temperance Anecdotes
Author: John MarshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Journal of the American Temperance Union
Author: Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Drunks
Author: Christopher FinanPublisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807001791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Reveals the history of our struggle with alcoholism and the emergence of a search for sobriety that is as old as our nation. In Drunks, Christopher Finan introduces us to a colorful cast of characters who were integral in America’s moral journey to understanding alcoholism. There's the remarkable Iroquois leader named Handsome Lake, a drunk who stopped drinking and dedicated his life to helping his people achieve sobriety. In the early nineteenth century, the idealistic and energetic “Washingtonians,” a group of reformed alcoholics, led the first national movement to save men like themselves. After the Civil War, doctors began to recognize that chronic drunkenness is an illness, and Dr. Leslie Keeley invented a “gold cure” that was dispensed at more than a hundred clinics around the country. But most Americans rejected a scientific explanation of alcoholism. A century after the ignominious death of Charles Adams came Carrie Nation. The wife of a drunk, she destroyed bars with a hatchet in her fury over what alcohol had done to her family. Prohibition became the law of the land, but nothing could stop the drinking. Finan also tells the dramatic story of Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith, who helped each other stay sober and then created AA, which survived its tumultuous early years and finally proved that alcoholics could stay sober for a lifetime. This is narrative history at its best: entertaining and authoritative, an important portrait of one of America’s great liberation movements and essential reading for anyone involved in the addiction community.
Theatre, Culture and Temperance Reform in Nineteenth-Century America
Author: John W. FrickPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521817781
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This book examines the role of temperance drama in American theatre and compares the American genre to its British counterpart.
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Author: Frederick DouglassPublisher:
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Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Frederick Douglass recounts early years of abuse, his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil rights for former slaves. It is also the only of Douglass's autobiographies to discuss his life during and after the Civil War, including his encounters with American presidents such as Lincoln, Grant, and Garfield.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society
Author: Adam FergusonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil society
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States
Author: Frederick Law OlmstedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Enslaved persons
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Examines the economy and it's impact of slavery on the coast land slave states pre-Civil War.
The Weekly record of the temperance movement [afterw.] The Weekly record. [Continued as] The Temperance record
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Author: National temperance leaguePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description