| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Manhood Lost: Fallen Drunkards and Redeeming Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States. By Elaine Frantz Parsons. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiv, 241 pp. $42.95, ISBN 0-8018-7166-2.)

Up until now, the methods and approaches of social and political history have dominated the historiography of drink and temperance in the United States. Although the ideas of temperance reformers and their opponents have not been neglected, few historians have subjected them to rigorous and sustained analysis. In this revised dissertation, Elaine Frantz Parsons presents a lively and sophisticated intellectual history of the drink debate. She argues that the debate resonated through diverse discourses crucial to the American self-image, influenced thinking about alcohol and selfhood among both working-class and middle-class men and women, and itself underwent a significant change during the course of the nineteenth century.

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