Distilling democracy
alcohol education in America's public schools, 1880-1925
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Author
Publication
1999 - University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Language
English
Word Count
52,000 words, Guess
Page Count
208 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL382535M
- ISBN-100700609458
- OCLC Control Number98044935
- OCLC Control Number40126467
- OCLC Control Numberdistillingdemocr0000zimm
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number98044935
- LibraryThing3903912
- Goodreads2695113
Classifications
- DDC362.292/071/073
- LCCHV5128.U5 Z55 1999
Description
Scientific Temperance Instruction was the most successful grassroots education program in American history, championed by an army of housewives in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union under the leadership of Mary Hanchett Hunt. As Hunt and her forces took their message across the country, they were opposed by many educators and other professionals who believed that ordinary citizens had no business interfering with educational matters. STI sparked heated conflict between expert and popular authority in the debate over alcohol education, but it was eventually mandated as part of public school curricula in all states. The real issue surrounding STI, argues Jonathan Zimmerman, was not alcohol but the struggle to reconcile democracy and expertise. In this first book-length study of the crusade for STI, he shows Mary Hunt to be a wily and manipulative politician as he examines how citizens and experts used knowledge selectively to advance their own agendas.
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