A very early iteration of John B. Gough's autobiography. He would go on to become one of the most influential orators of the second half of the 19th century on moral and religious subjects . . . perhaps only outshone by T. De Witt Talmage, Henry Ward Beecher, and D. L. Moody.
This from very early in his career when his almost exclusive subject was temperance. Rare in this form. Details the origin of dry hotels where traveling men would not be tempted to drink, the corruption of the alcohol trade, the evils perpetrated by people when drunk, its connection to prostitution and domestic abuse, etc.,
This copy owned and signed by Frank D. Andrews, an early Temperance leader in New Jersey and author of The Beginning of the Temperance Movement in Vinland [N.J.].
Gough. John B. An Autobiography by John B. Gough. Boston. Published by J. B. Gough. 1850. 180pp.
A good + copy, bound in cloth, very solid, with some toning, and moderate foxing largely located on the foredge.
