04032cam a2200733 4500 468420799 TxAuBib 20201029120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780807001806 0807001805 B01MF4TXZ6 Amazon 857140a7-26b9-443a-afb9-82d28aa8bc3b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 546052 546052 546052 3082396 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Finan, Christopher M., 1953- Drunks [Libby] : An American History. Beacon Press, 2017. recovery. happiness. Addiction. mental health. Alcoholism. World History. Codependency. human nature. Neurology. psychology. Positive Thinking. psychiatry. alcoholics anonymous. History. mental illness. adult children of alcoholics. depression. AA. Narcotics Anonymous. history books. historical books. gifts for history buffs. mental health books. psychology books. mental illness books. addiction books. psychology book. history gifts. psychiatry books. history teacher gifts. american history gifts. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4315kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 4334kB. History. Psychology. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>Reveals the history of our struggle with alcoholism and the emergence of a search for sobriety that is as old as our nation.</b><br /> In <i>Drunks</i>, Christopher Finan introduces us to a colorful cast of characters who were integral in America's moral journey to understanding alcoholism. There's the remarkable Iroquois leader named Handsome Lake, a drunk who stopped drinking and dedicated his life to helping his people achieve sobriety. In the early nineteenth century, the idealistic and energetic "Washingtonians," a group of reformed alcoholics, led the first national movement to save men like themselves. After the Civil War, doctors began to recognize that chronic drunkenness is an illness, and Dr. Leslie Keeley invented a "gold cure" that was dispensed at more than a hundred clinics around the country. But most Americans rejected a scientific explanation of alcoholism. A century after the ignominious death of Charles Adams came Carrie Nation. The wife of a drunk, she destroyed bars with a hatchet in her fury over what alcohol had done to her family. Prohibition became the law of the land, but nothing could stop the drinking. Finan also tells the dramatic story of Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith, who helped each other stay sober and then created AA, which survived its tumultuous early years and finally proved that alcoholics could stay sober for a lifetime.<br /> This is narrative history at its best: entertaining and authoritative, an important portrait of one of America's great liberation movements and essential reading for anyone involved in the addiction community. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-28 22:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=857140a7-26b9-443a-afb9-82d28aa8bc3b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=857140a7-26b9-443a-afb9-82d28aa8bc3b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=857140a7-26b9-443a-afb9-82d28aa8bc3b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)