Drunkard's progress : narratives of addiction, despair, and recovery / edited by John W. Crowley.
"Twelve-step" recovery programs for a wide variety of addictive behaviors have become tremendously popular in the 1990s. According to John W. Crowley, the origin of these movements--including Alcoholics Anonymous--lies in the Washingtonian Temperance Society, founded in Baltimore in the 18...
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Baltimore, Md. :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- "The experience meeting," from Six nights with the Washingtonians (1842) / T.S. Arthur
- from A long voyage in a leaky ship (1842) / [James Gale]
- Confessions of a female inebriate (1842) / [Isaac F. Shepard]
- from Narrative of Charles T. Woodman, a reformed inebriate (1843) / Charles T. Woodman
- from Autobiography of a reformed drunkard (1845) / [John Cotton Mather, pseudonym]
- from An autobiography by John B. Gough (1845) / John B Gough
- from The life and experience of A.V. Green (1848) / Andrus V. Green
- from Incidents in the life of George Haydock (1847) / George Haydock.