| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Carry A. Nation: Retelling the Life. By Fran Grace. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. xvi, 374 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-253-33846-8.)

There is little doubt that it is past time for a "retelling" of the life journey of Carry Nation (1846–1911). She was a major figure in the political world of the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century United States, a source of pride for some, entertainment for others, and fascination for many. For several decades, everywhere she went controversy, headlines, and crowds followed. 1

Fran Grace undertakes this needed and welcome new account of Carry Nation's story, presenting Nation's life in a straightforward chronological manner. In the process she constructs a story that is wonderfully rich in its detail. Grace is a serious scholar who has worked hard to mine all possible sources on Nation's life. She demonstrates how thoroughly she has done so as she explores Nation's personal development, her complex family relationships, including her two divorces, her many moves and homes, her complicated political evolution, and her religion, which is a special interest of Grace's. Grace's discussion of those many dimensions gives her readers a sense of the fullness of Nation's life story. It is one that turns out to be a fascinating, multisided affair, interesting in itself even if Nation were not a famous historical character. . . .

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