Jason S. Lantzer is an adjunct history faculty member of Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, and Butler University.
“Jason Lantzer's excellent biography of Edward Shumaker places one
of America's most successful Prohibition crusaders in the very
center of American religion and reform. Lantzer's careful research
and thoughtful analysis sharply contradicts the tendency to see
Prohibition as a mere sidebar to American history and opens our
minds to the connections between political activism and religious
faith.” —James H. Madison, author of Slinging Doughnuts for the
Boys: An American Woman in World War II
"Historian Jason Lantzer has defied the odds. He's authored a
doctoral thesis that is readable, academically sound and pertinent
to current events. Lantzer tells the story of Edward Shumaker, the
most politically influential church pastor in Indiana history.
Shumaker was a crusader against alcohol abuse, peaking in influence
from World War I to the mid-1920s.” —Indianapolis Star
"Presenting evidence that the prohibition movement in Indiana was
not happenstance or abnormal, but rather an effect of the
mainstream cultural currents of the era, "Prohibition Is Here to
Stay" uses Indiana as a lens to further examine larger issues of
America's transformation from a rural to an urban majority, as well
as the consequent shift in cultural values and the repercussions of
industrialization and foreign immigration. A thoughtful,
well-researched and persuasively presented study, highly
recommended especially for college library collections." —Midwest
Book Review
“Lantzer aims to shed new light on the American prohibition
movement. Among the issues he explores while discussing Shumaker’s
life and work are: how dry culture transformed itself from a
reformist cause to a national crusade, how the Anti Saloon League
functioned at local and state levels, how its message evolved over
time, how white evangelical Protestant reformers reached out to
other groups, how the rhetoric of inclusion came to be superseded
by the more reactionary vision of the Ku Klux Klan, and how the
dominant reform of the largest religious segment of American
culture came to be repealed and considered a failure.” —Research
Book News
“Jason S. Lantzer’s “Prohibition Is Here to Stay” is a fine
examination of the life and work of Indiana’s dry crusader, the
Reverend Edward S. Shumaker. . . . Lantzer’s exploration of the dry
movement’s legacy is the most interesting dimension of this work.
As he points out, ‘though Shumaker’s reform was over, the culture
that produced it was not.’” —Journal of American History
“Prohibition is Here to Stay” is a biography of a pivotal figure in
the Midwest’s early twentieth century dry crusade. The Reverend S.
Shumaker was a Methodist minister who spent his life in Indiana, a
man who believed alcohol was a sin from a very young age . . .
students of the prohibition movement will find it informative.”
—American Catholic Studies
“Jason S. Lantzer’s “Prohibition is Here to Stay” offers a
detailed, local-level analysis of dry Protestant politics in action
through an examination of the life and reform career of Edward S.
Shumaker, a Methodist minister who achieved prominence and
notoriety as the superintendent of the Indiana Anti Saloon League.”
—Church History
“Prohibition is often dismissed as an unfortunate aberration in the
American reform tradition, led by fanatics, and doomed to failure.
Jason S. Lantzer seeks to correct this impression in a well-written
and thoroughly documented study on the life and career of Edward S.
Shumaker, state superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League
from 1907 until his untimely death in 1929.” —Indiana Magazine of
History
“Lantzer takes a respectful approach to Shumaker, offering a unique
contribution to a neglected subject in state history. . . .
Lantzer’s regional story show[s] that the debate over alcohol abuse
didn’t end with the repeal of Prohibition. It stays alive through
the work of groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving and
Alcoholics Anonymous.” —Indystar
“Using the life of Reverend Edward S. Shumaker as a lens through
which to view how social issues can be shaped by religious faith,
historian Jason S. Lantzer explores the relationship between
religion and politics in American culture, particularly during the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This enjoyable,
well-researched biography contains extensive and informative notes,
as well as a valuable bibliography that includes archives, primary
and secondary sources, court cases, dissertations and theses,
interviews and oral histories, manuscript collections, newspapers,
pamphlets, and websites. Recommended for high school, college, and
public libraries.” —Catholic Library World
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