Drunkard’s Progress: Narratives of Addiction, Despair, and Recovery
Drunkard’s Progress: Narratives of Addiction, Despair, and Recovery
New – “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 1840s. In lectures, pamphlets, and books (most notably John B. Gough’s Autobiography, published in 1845), recovering “drunkards” described their enslavement to and liberation from alcohol. Though widely
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