Battling Demon Rum Thomas R. Pegram

Name: Battling Demon Rum By Thomas R. Pegram
SKU: 9781566632089
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Battling Demon Rum by Thomas R. Pegram

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SeriesAmerican Ways

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This is Thomas Pegram's narrative account of the fight to regulate alcohol, tracing the moral and political campaigns of the temperance advocates and showing how their tactics and organization reflected changes in the nation's politics and social structure.

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Battling Demon Rum: The Struggle for a Dry America, 1800-1933 by Thomas R. Pegram

A narrative account of the fight to regulate alcohol, from roughly 1800 to the repeal of national prohibition in 1933. An intriguing tale of social reform and of the limits of government-imposed morality. The best short history available of the politics and practices of American temperance reform....Highly recommended. -Library Journal. American Ways Series.

Battling Demon Rum Reviews

A concise, accessible history. * Reason *
Smoothly written. * CHOICE *
An informative and readable chronicle...a timely historical text. -- John Powers * The Boston Globe *
The best short history available of the politics and practices of American temperance reform...highly recommended. * Library Journal *
These long-dead battles put our own lesser war on cigarettes and narcotics (but bizarrely not alcohol) in sharp relief. -- Christopher Caldwell * The Wall Street Journal *
Excellent...Pegram's book is more than the 'noble experiment' [of Prohibition]; it is about all the experiments leading up to it and why they, too, failed. -- Roger K. Miller * Chicago Sun-Times *

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Sku

CIN1566632080G

ISBN 13

9781566632089

ISBN 10

1566632080

Title

Battling Demon Rum: The Struggle for a Dry America, 1800-1933 by Thomas R. Pegram

Author

Thomas R. Pegram

Series

American Ways

Condition

Used - Good

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

Ivan R Dee, Inc

Year published

19980901

Number of pages

224

Prizes

N/A

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Note

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