Description: Platform Echoes, John B Gough, 1886, Worthington. - 1st edition (deduced); written the year of Gough's death. "...Living Truths for Head and Heart"."Five hundred thrilling anecdotes and incidents, humorous stories, personal experiences and adventures touching home scenes and tales of tender pathos." .... drawn from the Bright and Shady sides of life. "...with a history of Gough's life and work." - 9 x 6.5 x 2+ inches approx. ; 639 pages.- real leather covered. - frequent illustrations: "225 engravings" From internet: Teach US History.Org:John B. Gough (1817-1886): The Temperance Orator as RevivalistIn 1842 John B. Gough took the pledge in Worcester, Massachusetts and began a career of lecturing against the evils of drink. He frequently drew upon his own experiences. One contemporary called him "the poet of the D.T.s." Over the more than forty years he campaigned against drinking, Gough gave upwards of 9,600 lectures to more than nine million people in America, Canada, and Great Britain. When he died in 1886, the New York Times wrote that he "was probably better known in this country and in Great Britain than any other public speaker." He achieved such renown because of his success in converting drinkers. Hundreds of thousands took the Pledge at the conclusion of one of his speeches. The parallel with the call from the revivalist to the converted to step forward and publically renounce their sins is apparent. Here is a brief description of Gough in Ohio:March 20, 1851THE NATIONAL ERAWashington, D.C.Vol. V. No. 220 p. 47The following is an excerpt from a letter written in CINCINNATI, March 12, 1851 to the Editor of The National Era:Since my last letter, John B. Gough has been doing a great and good work in our city. A week ago, 2,600 persons had signed the pledge, and the interests keeps up without flagging. I cannot attempt a description of Mr. Gough's style or manner of speaking; language would fail to portray the effects he produces on his hearers, and any analysis of his lectures or the outbursts of natural, heart-stirring enthusiastic oratory, by which he enchains the feelings and convinces the minds of his auditors, would do him [an] injustice. Many of your Eastern readers have doubtless heard him, and will be gratified to hear of the deep impression he has made, and the wide fields of usefulness opening to him in the West. He was at Springfield, Clarke county, last week, where the whole population turned out en masse to hear him, and the larger part signed the pledge. He is now at Columbus, but will return to this city next week, when he is to address all the pupils of the Public Schools. There is room enough for his labors, as the increase of "coffee houses," (as they are called,) and drunkenness, and vice of every kind, more than keeps pace with the advances of population. CONDITION:Good-plus Condition for this 1st edition leather vintage hdbk. Cover shows small edge & corner wear/tattering...otherwise, just general aging...gold lettering still nice. Also light crack at spine edge. Hinges/binding are strong/tight. Very nice deep ivory even age-tanning to all paper. Paper is strong and supple. Darker tanning only right inside boards. Inside is clean...almost no sign of wear. Book is strong/robust and can be used normally. Collectible.
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