A very nice association copy of Carry Nation's autobiography. Neatly inscribed as having been acquired from her in person by its owner.
Carry Nation was an extremely influential temperance campaigner and laborer for women's suffrage. In part because of her experience with her own husband after the Civil War, she was persuaded that drunkenness was the cause of many problems in society. Nation fought with verbal and actual violence to make her case, firing canons into saloons, etc., Her turn to violence and female mobs gained her national attention attention. Though she was beaten and jailed many times for “smashing” saloons, Carry Nation remained opposed to drinking and smoking throughout her life. Her crusade against drinking contributed to the passing of the Eighteenth Amendment.
Nation, Carry A. The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation. Written by Herself. Revised Edition Ten thousand Copies Illustrated. Topeka. F. M. Steves & Sons. 1909. 414pp.
A good + copy, bound in cloth, lightly shaken, with generally bright pages and a small divot to the cloth on the rear board.
