Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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VESSEL OF WRATH, by Robert Lewis Taylor. A whimsical tour of the trail that hatchet-swinging Carry Nation blazed through the hogsheads and saloons of her time...
VESSEL OF WRATH, by Robert Lewis Taylor. A new and nimble biography of Carry Nation, whose hatchet made a shambles of saloons from Medicine Lodge to Coney Island...
VESSEL OF WRATH, by Robert Lewis Taylor. Although assorted biographers of Carry Nation have tried before to do justice to the lady with the hatchet, Taylor is the first to succeed-with a book that is as irreverent as it is readable...
VESSEL OF WRATH by Robert Lewis Taylor. 373 pages. New American Library...
Vessel of Wrath is a splendid tribute to its destructive subject, even though Parodist Taylor is outmatched. Carry's memory is secure from parody. She was a woman so extravagantly beyond the normal pale that even her avowed enemies, the whisky dispensers, had trouble believing she was real. Ultimately they became her most devoted allies, hiring bands to accompany her on lecture tours, subscribing to her house organ, The Smasher's Mail, and cheerfully providing the beer kegs that she mounted on street corners all over the country...