Battling Demon Rum

The Struggle for a Dry America, 1800-1933

von Thomas R. Pegram

226 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.