“Prohibition Is Here to Stay”: The Reverend Edward S. Shumaker and the Dry Crusade in America. By Jason S. Lantzer. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009. ix+306 pp. $35.00 paper.

摘要

As American religious and ethnic pluralism developed in the early twentiethrncentury, public policy debates often reflected diverse and contradictoryrnsectarian outlooks. The constitutional prohibition of beverage alcohol in thern1920s emerged in this era not only as the quintessential evangelical Protestantrnpublic policy but also, from the standpoint of other confessional traditions, asrna particularly reviled state intrusion into private behavior. Among the manyrnorganized groups that channeled dry Protestant sentiment into political action,rnthe Anti-Saloon League (ASL) stood out as the self-described agent of “thernchurch in action against the saloon.” Jason S. Lantzer’s “Prohibition Is Herernto Stay” offers a detailed, local-level analysis of dry Protestant politics inrnaction through an examination of the life and reform career of Edward S.rnShumaker, a Methodist minister who achieved prominence and notoriety asrnthe superintendent of the Indiana Anti Saloon League (IASL).