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"Platform Echoes: Or Living Truths for Head and Heart
illustrated by nearly 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 by John B. Gough author of "Sunlight and Shadow" with a history of Mr. Gough's life and work by Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D.
Superbly illustrated with two hundred and twenty-five (225) engravings from original drawings by the most eminent artists.
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John B. Gough (1817-1886) was a well-known temperance orator and public speaker. After the death of his mother in 1835, Gough became an alcoholic. It cost him his family. In 1842, he attended a temperance meeting and signed a pledge to abstain from alcohol.
Successful in the struggle to stop drinking, Gough devoted his life to temperance reform. He traveled the world giving more than 5,000 temperance lectures during his career.
Later in his career, he also spoke on other issues. This book contains his lectures on both temperance and on other subjects.
Gough published six books during his lifetime. This collection was published posthumously, but was planned or produced prior to his death
