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Battling demon rum, the struggle for a dry America, 1800-1933, Thomas R. Pegram

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-201) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Battling demon rum

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

38580273

Responsibility statement

Thomas R. Pegram

Series statement

The American ways series

Sub title

the struggle for a dry America, 1800-1933

Summary

Thomas Pegram's narrative account of the fight to regulate alcohol traces the moral and political offensives of the temperance advocates, and shows how their tactics and organization reflected changes in the nation's politics and social structure. The failures of prohibition enforcement shaped the attitudes of politicians ever since, offering an example of the limits of government-enforced morals. Battling Demon Rum is an intriguing tale of social reform

Table Of Contents

Drinking and temperance in the age of reform : The culture of drinking. Early temperance reform. The Second Great Awakening. The American Temperance Society -- From teetotalism to the Maine laws : Teetotalism. The Washingtonians. Immigration. No-license and the Second Party system. Neal Dow and the Maine Law -- A movement of outsiders : Civil War, party politics, and the decline of prohibition. The Prohibition party. Women, drinking, and saloons. The Women's Crusade -- Prohibition in the Gilded Age : The WCTU. Frances Willard. WCTU politics. Ethnocultural politics and prohibition in the 1880sAlcohol and the saloon in the Progressive Era : The progressive case against alcohol. The age of beer. Brewers, saloons, and the tied-house system. Saloons and urban politics. Social functions of saloons. Ethnic clubs -- The Anti-Saloon League and the revival of Prohibition : The dispensary system. Growth of the Anti-Saloon League. The Ohio League. The church in action against the saloon. Southern prohibition. National agitation. The Webb-Kenyon Act -- War and the politics of national prohibition : International influences. The campaign for constitutional prohibition. World War I and wartime prohibition. The 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act. Wayne Wheeler. Enforcement woes. Accomplishments and shortcomings of national prohibitionThe shock of repeal : Middle-class estrangement. The Ku Klux Klan. Organized crime and violence. Youth culture and women. Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. Al Smith and John J. Raskob. Herbert Hoover, the Great Depression, and the Wickersham Commission. 1932 election. The 21st Amendment

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