Through an examination of the two icons of the nineteenth century American temperance movement -- the self-made man and the crusading woman -- Fletcher demonstr

Reprint. Originally published: Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981.

Drink, in the minds of antebellum temperance reformers, represented the threat of an increasingly urban, industrial world. Contrasting the drunkards' lack of re

The definitive collection of speeches and writings of one of America's most important social reformers Celebrated as the most famous woman in America at the tim

In this richly illustrated study, Carol Mattingly examines the rhetoric of the temperance movement, the largest political movement of women in the nineteenth ce