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Blurb: The saloon-smashing yet fun-loving crusader who fought Alcohol, Tobacco, and Sex with her hatchet.
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Hatchet-slinging, Bible-toting Carry Nation raised more hell than the James brothers, the Daltons, and Belle Starr combined. Here's the temperance terror of the Gay Nineties who started in Wichita and axed her way across the country in a one-woman crusade against Alcohol, Tobacco, and Sex.... a living portrait by the distinguished biographer of W. C. Fields and Winston Churchill.
"Taylor is a skilled biographer. Vessel of Wrath is a splendid tribute to its destructive subject." Time Magazine
"The book is a masterpiece." Houston Chronicle
"I could not put it down." Bernard Weisberger, Chicago Tribune
Robert Lewis Taylor was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters.
His best-selling biography of W. C. Fields (Signet Classic CO379) is currently being made into a major motion picture. He is also internationally known for his historical novels, A Journey to Matecumbe and Two Roads to Guadalupé, as well as for another widely-hailed biography, Winston Churchill, an Informal Study of Greatness. A number of collections of his New Yorker Profiles have been published, among them Center Ring, the People of the Circus.
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