"This is first-rate popular history, full of anecdotes and vivid personalities, with a compelling narrative."--Smithsonian
Ardent Spirit covers the full range of the temperance idea in America, beginning in the early seventeenth century and continuing through the prohibition years, 1919-1933. Using a wide variety of sources, Kobler quotes the amusing and often startling comments relating to the efforts of...
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