Hi Sarah...
 
Jim and Richard are right of course!
 
Harry Gene Levine, "The Committee of Fifty and the Origins of Alcohol
Control," *Journal of Drug Issues* 13:95-116, 1983.
 
Incidentally--and as long as I've got my Levine file open--Levine and
Smith (i.e., Harry and David C. Smith, "A Selected Bibliography on
Alcohol Control, Particularly before and at Repeal," Social [later,
Alcohol] Research Group Working Paper F71, December 1977) say of the
CofF:  "Perhaps the most comprehensive attempt to examine the totality
of the liquor problem, the Committee of Fifty reports truly mark the
beginning of a distinctively 'scientific' and administrative approach
to the liquor problem in the United States."
 
John J. Rumbarger (*Profits, Power and Prohibition: Alcohol Reform and
the Industrializing of America 1800-1930*) discusses the CofF at pp.
89-101.
 
And forgoshsakes don't forget Phil Pauly's wonderful, "The Stuggle for
Ignorance About Alcohol: American Physiologists, Wilbur Olin Atwater,
and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union," *Bull. Hist. Med.*
764:366-392, 1990.
 
Happy hunting!
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