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The chapter situates the League within the late-nineteenth-century organizational revolution and a fragmented temperance field.
Thompson presents the Anti-Saloon League as a modern bureaucratic pressure organization that borrowed contemporary association and business methods, pursued nonpartisan influence, framed the liquor industry as a unified opponent, and concentrated disparate reform energies on closing the liquor business.
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