Manhood Lost: Fallen Drunkards and Redeeming Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Elaine Frantz Parsons, Dorothy Ross

Manhood Lost: Fallen Drunkards and Redeeming Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Elaine Frantz Parsons, Dorothy Ross

256 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In fiction, drama, poems, and pamphlets, nineteenth-century reformers told the familiar tale of the decent young man who fell victim to demon rum: Robbed of his manhood by his first drink, he slid inevitably into an abyss of despair and depravity....

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