"Drawing on her 2004 dissertation, Holly Berkley Fletcher has written a provocative, well-researched, and mostly persuasive first book. It is based on many manuscript and prited sources, including innumerable periodicals and an enormous body of secondary literature. ... Like any good book about temperance, Fletcher's is more than that. Surveying almost a century from the American Temperance Society to the Women's Christian Temperance Union, Fletcher focuses on two gendered icons, the self-made man and the crusading woman. ... " -- CHOICE February 2009 Vol. 46 (D. M. Fahey, Miami University)

• List of FiguresAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Self-Made Men: Temperance, Identity, and Authority in Antebellum AmericaChapter Two: Temperance Counter-Cultures and the Coming of the Civil War Chapter Three: "Let Patriots Join Hands:" The Civil War and the War on Alcohol Chapter Four: Crusading Women: The Creation of a New Temperance Icon Chapter Five: A "Knitting Together of Hearts:" The Crusader, the WCTU, and the Building of a Temperance Coalition Notes BibliographyIndex

"Drawing on her 2004 dissertation, Holly Berkley Fletcher has written a provocative, well-researched, and mostly persuasive first book. It is based on many manuscript and prited sources, including innumerable periodicals and an enormous body of secondary literature. ... Like any good book about temperance, Fletcher's is more than that. Surveying almost a century from the American Temperance Society to the Women's Christian Temperance Union, Fletcher focuses on two gendered icons, the self-made man and the crusading woman. ... " -- CHOICE February 2009 Vol. 46 (D. M. Fahey, Miami University)

• List of FiguresAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Self-Made Men: Temperance, Identity, and Authority in Antebellum AmericaChapter Two: Temperance Counter-Cultures and the Coming of the Civil War Chapter Three: "Let Patriots Join Hands:" The Civil War and the War on Alcohol Chapter Four: Crusading Women: The Creation of a New Temperance Icon Chapter Five: A "Knitting Together of Hearts:" The Crusader, the WCTU, and the Building of a Temperance Coalition Notes BibliographyIndex

"Drawing on her 2004 dissertation, Holly Berkley Fletcher has written a provocative, well-researched, and mostly persuasive first book. It is based on many manuscript and prited sources, including innumerable periodicals and an enormous body of secondary literature. ... Like any good book about temperance, Fletcher's is more than that. Surveying almost a century from the American Temperance Society to the Women's Christian Temperance Union, Fletcher focuses on two gendered icons, the self-made man and the crusading woman. ... " -- CHOICE February 2009 Vol. 46 (D. M. Fahey, Miami University)

• List of FiguresAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Self-Made Men: Temperance, Identity, and Authority in Antebellum AmericaChapter Two: Temperance Counter-Cultures and the Coming of the Civil War Chapter Three: "Let Patriots Join Hands:" The Civil War and the War on Alcohol Chapter Four: Crusading Women: The Creation of a New Temperance Icon Chapter Five: A "Knitting Together of Hearts:" The Crusader, the WCTU, and the Building of a Temperance Coalition Notes BibliographyIndex