Joe --
    Try Joan Silverman, "I'll Never Touch another Drop": Images of Alcoholism and Temperance in American Popular Culture 1874-1919.  PhD dissertation, New York University, 1979.
    My impression is that "experience lecturers" are more a 19th than a 20th century phenomenon in the temperance movement.  By the 20th century saving the drunk by personal testimony is no longer high on the movement's agenda (except for the city mission/Salvation Army end of the movement). The "temperance tale" disappears into the Alcoholics Anonymous "drunkalog" -- AA's Big Book, in its newsletter, the Grapevine, and many other offshoots are full of personal accounts. Other personal accounts can be found in the large modern popular literature -- in the Recovery/Self-Help section of your local bookstore.  There is a large literature of qualitative PhD dissertations on AA and its offshoots, which is likely to have relevant quotes.
    For representations of alcoholism/drunkenness in American movies, see:
    Denise Herd, Ideology, melodrama, and the changing role of alcohol problems in American films, Contemporary Drug Problems 13:213-247, 1986 (take a look at the articles in CDP 15(2), 1988, too). 
    Robin Room, Alcoholism and AA in American films, 1945-1962: the party ends for the "wet generations" Journal of Styudies on Alcohol 50:368-383, 1989.
    Norman Denzin, Hollywood Shot by Shot, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 1991. 

Incidentally, does anyone know how to access the ATHG archives successfully?
GETPOST ATHG LOG9904 doesn't seem to work the system doesn't recognize LOG9904. 
            -- Robin

-----Original Message-----
From: Jessy Randall <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: den 22 april 1999 17:46
Subject: Re: Temperance rhetoric


>Joe King:
>
>For 19th century personal accounts, you could try the Library Company's
>website (address below), which links to our online catalog. Searching
>"temperance" yields about 450 hits. Offhand, I can recommend a couple of
>titles:
>
>Hosack, David, 1769-1835. Address delivered at the first anniversary of the
>New York City Temperance Society / by David Hosack ; May 11, 1830. [New
>York : s.n., 1830] 24 p. ; 21 cm. Contains "Confessions of a drunkard."
>Rare Am 1830 Hosack 69369.O
>
>and
>
>Dutcher, George M., b. 1839. Disinthralled : a story of my life / by George
>M. Dutcher ; a vivid portrayal of the evils of intemperance as exemplified
>in the author's own remarkable career, together with many interesting
>reminiscences of his six year's experience as a worker in the temperance
>field. Hartford, Conn.: : Columbian Book Company, 1872. 276 p., [6] leaves
>of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
>Rare 2 Wright 830 102080.D
>
>(The second title purports to be autobiography, but is actually a work of
>fiction -- definitely temperance rhetoric!)
>
>I know there are others, and if you play around in the online catalog or
>make a visit to the LCP, you will probably find more.
>
>-- Jessy Randall
>
>
>At 02:47 PM 4/21/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>Greetings,
>>
>>I am currently doing research on the rhetoric of the
>>temperance movement. I am most interested in their use
>>of rhetoric -- personal accounts of how drink affected
>>the speaker or others. I would be most interested in
>>20th Century information, but 19th century is good,
>>too.
>>
>>Can anyone point me to any resources for such
>>information?
>>
>>Thank you in advance for any and all assistance.
>>
>>Joe King
>>
>
>Jessy Randall
>Library Company of Philadelphia
>1314 Locust Street Philadelphia, PA 19107
>215-546-3181 [log in to unmask]
>http://www.librarycompany.org