Moral reconstruction : Christian lobbyists and the Federal legislation of morality, 1865-1920 /
Gaines M. Foster.
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002 .
- xiii, 318 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-308) and index.
The antebellum moral polity -- Christ and prohibition in the Constitution? -- Sexuality and the family -- Appetite, avarice-- and an alliance -- The Sabbath and religious authority -- The lottery and the South -- A broad agenda of moral legislation -- Aligning the government against alcohol -- The final step : prohibition.
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