Carry A. Nation
Subtitle: saloon smasher and prohibitionist
By: Bonnie Carman Harvey
Series: Historical American biographies
Publisher: Enslow Publishers
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berkeley Heights, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780766019072
Subjects: Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Biography; Prohibitionists; Reformers; Juvenile literature; Prohibition; Women
Description: Examines the life of Carry Nation, whose destruction of saloons and other businesses that sold liquor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century won her both praise and criticism from fellow prohibitionists and temperance workers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Saloon smashing; title: 2. Childhood; title: 3. Blushing bride at twenty-one; title: 4. Life with an alcoholic; title: 5. Marriage to David Nation; title: 6. Making of a crusader; title: 7. The prize of Wichita; title: 8. Fearless crusader; title: 9. Carry Nation gains national fame; title: 10. Lasting accomplishments; title: 11. Carry Nation's legacy.