Luther Benson describes with brutal candour how drink took hold of him from youth: the binges, the bouts of delirium tremens, the lost friends and money, and the hundred-mile walk home from Bluffton without a cent. Interwoven are his reflections on temperament and inheritance and his work as a temperance lecturer.
A raw nineteenth-century addiction memoir, valuable for readers interested in the history of alcoholism and the temperance movement. Download the free EPUB.