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Books and articles on the Anti-Saloon League, the Temperance Movement and Prohibition

 

Cherrington, Ernest. History of the Anti-Saloon League. Westerville: American Issue Publishing Co., 1913.

 
Cherrington, Ernest. The evolution of prohibition in the United States of America; a chronological history of the liquor problem and the temperance reform in the United States from the earliest settlements to the consummation of national prohibition: Montclair, N.J., Patterson Smith, 1969. 
 

Dohn, Norman Harding. The history of the Anti-Saloon League. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1976.

 
Engelmann, Larry. Intemperance. New York: The Free Press, 1979.
 

Ewin, James Lithgow. The birth of the Anti-Saloon League. Washington, D.C., 1913.

 

Furnas, J.C. The life and times of the late demon rum. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965.

 

Lamme, Margot Opdycke. The campaign against the second edition of hell: An examination of the messages and methods of the Anti-Saloon League of America through a framework of public relations history, 1893-1933. University of Alabama, 2002.

 

Lamme, Margot Opdycke. “Tapping into War: Leveraging World War I in the drive for a dry nation”. American Journalism, Special Issue: Persuasive Communication, 21 no. 4 (2004): 63-91.

 

Lamme, Margot Opdycke. “Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory: Communications of the Anti-Saloon League of America, 1920-1933”. Atlanta Review of Journalism History, 4 (Fall 2003): 1-49.

 

Lamme, Margot Opdycke. “The ‘Public Sentiment Building Society’: The Anti-Saloon League of America, 1895-1910”. Journalism History, 29(Fall 2003): 123-132.

 
Lee, Henry. How dry we were. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1963.
 

Lien, Jerry. The speechmaking of the Anti-Saloon League. University of Southern California, 1968.

 

Kerr, K. Austin. Organized for Prohibition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.

 
Kobler, John. Ardent Spirits. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1973.
 
Odegard, Peter H. Pressure politics: The story of the Anti-Saloon League. New York: Columbia University Press, 1928.
 

Pegram, Thomas R. Battling demon rum: The struggle for a dry America, 1800-1933.
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1998.

 
 
 
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