Canonical contributor authority record for Joe L. Coker. Identity and 2020 publication-time biography were verified from rendered PDF sheets 210–213.
Authority summary
Historian of religion and culture; author of Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause.
Contribution to Prohibition's Greatest Myths
Chapter 2 reconstructs the religious, ideological, progressive, conservative, and secular breadth of the Prohibition coalition.
Project use and boundary
Use to prevent a religious-conservative-only origin story. Coalition breadth does not imply universal support within any constituency.