The Story of Carrie Nation

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This Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 16 pages, consists of two profiles of U.S. temperance reformer Carrie Nation : “Carrie Nation and Kansas” by William Allen White, originally published in “The Saturday Evening Post,” April 6, 1901 edition, and “A Woman John Knox” by Will Carlton, originally published in “Every Where” magazine, March 1911 edition.

Sample passage:
The work of this determined woman went on with a thoroughness and promptness that made it ultra-interesting. She was imprisoned again and again, and became an inmate, at one time and another, of some thirty-two different jails. She had trial after trial—in which it was discovered that her tongue was as sharp as her hatchet; she often addressing even the judge presiding as “Your Dishonor,” while prosecuting attorneys she treated with supreme scorn. Not much mercy was shown her in the county bastilles; she was often bestowed in cells next to insane people—in the hope, she thinks, that she might become really crazy, as well as reputedly so.

About the author:
William Allen White was an author, newspaper editor, and politician. Other works include biographies of Woodrow Wilson and Calvin Coolidge, and an autobiography.