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Книга A Drunkard's Story Thomas Augst

A Drunkard's Story

Life on the Nineteenth-Century Public Stage

Автор: Thomas Augst
Език: Английски език
Корици: С твърди корици
Издател: The University of Chicago Press
Наличност: Очакван нов продукт
Издание 31. 10. 2026
127.46 € 249.29 лв
An unparalleled portrait of nineteenth-century social reform and the magnetic oratory that gave it f...

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Автор
Thomas Augst
Език
Английски език
Корици
Книга - С твърди корици
Издадена
2026
страници
320
EAN
9780226058146
Enbook ID
52252501
Издател
The University of Chicago Press
Теглоt
454
Размери
152 x 229

Пълно описание

An unparalleled portrait of nineteenth-century social reform and the magnetic oratory that gave it force, told through the career of temperance advocate John B. GoughJohn B. Gough was perhaps nineteenth-century America’s most famous ex-drunkard—a man who had hit rock bottom but then found the determination to recover and preach sobriety with unusual scope and impact. Through an exploration of Gough’s life, Thomas Augst investigates a world in which a public speaker could achieve immense fame by delivering a remarkable 12,000 popular lectures over his lifetime across the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Gough kept a voluminous archive of his comings and goings, day after day, speech after speech. Augst is among the first scholars to fully mine these materials, and he uses them to illuminate the redemptive power of storytelling in the lives of citizens. In the process, A Drunkard’s Story follows an itinerant journey through the cultural history of social reform. John Gough’s life was fascinating in its own right, but Augst’s exploration of it also opens a window onto a rich interplay among performance, autobiography, and celebrity. The ways that people flocked to hear Gough tell his tale, and the contagious enthusiasm with which he was greeted far and wide, might seem from another time—but also surprisingly contemporary in the age of the influencer.

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