CHAFIN, Eugene W.

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Lincoln: the Man of Sorrow. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Dr. John Bascom, in remembrance of the day you gave me my diploma at the University of Wisconsin, June 17, 1875, from Eugene W. Chafin. Christmas, 1908". A "Compliments of the author" slip is also tipped in.Abraham Lincoln became a mythologized figure in the prohibition movement. Chafin, who served as the Prohibition Party's presidential candidate during the 1908 and 1912 presidential elections, here links Lincoln's greatness to his abstinence from drink, and prints an address by Lincoln in support of temperance.

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