Ten Nights in a Bar-Room
Chicago: W.B. Conkey, [c. 1910]. Reprint. Publisher's red cloth, stamped in black. Pages toned, spine-sunned, spots of wear extremities, very good. Item #243803
CLEAR THE WAY FOR A SOBER NATION
American novelist Timothy Shay Arthur (1809-1885) rallied Americans around the temperance movement with the 1854 publication of his most popular novel, Ten Nights in a Bar-Room. Arthur's tale of a tavern-owner's rapidly disintegrating personal life paved the road to the 18th Amendment, with reprints like this whipping Americans into an anti-alcohol frenzy in the decades leading up to prohibition.
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