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Temperance: A Surprisingly Progressive Crusade

1356.826 - 1382.599 Pete Wright

Around a table, men and women of stern conviction plot a course that would change the nation. Their weapon? Not bullets or bombs, but ballots. They aim to elect politicians who would outlaw the sale and consumption of intoxicating spirits. Thomas Nast, the famed cartoonist who gave us the Republican elephant and the Democratic donkey, gave us the Prohibition Party symbol too.

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