| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Jonathan Zimmerman. Distilling Democracy: Alcohol Education in America's Public Schools, 1880–1925 . Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 1999. Pp. xvii, 208. $29.95.

At last, Mary Hanchett Hunt has received the scholarly analysis she deserves. Historians have attributed to Hunt's campaign for Scientific Temperance Instruction (STI) a range of impressive achievements. Beginning in 1880, with her appointment to head a department of the national Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), Hunt won some of the most dramatic legislative successes in the history of temperance reform, as every U. S. state by 1901 adopted laws requiring STI in its schools. The implantation of temperance propaganda in every school possibly prepared the cultural ground for the seeds of national prohibition that were to produce such an abundant harvest by 1920. Key to Hunt's legislative triumphs was a strategy of single-issue, non-partisan, pressure-group action, as WCTU women descended upon state capitals with prayers and petitions. This strategy in turn inspired the activists of the Anti-Saloon League, who led the way to the Eighteenth Amendment. Yet despite the widespread respect historians have given to Hunt's campaign, and the publication of her papers in a microfilm edition more than twenty years ago, no book-length account has appeared until now. . . .

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