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David Fahey <[log in to unmask]>
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Alcohol and Temperance History Group <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:18:23 -0500
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John Burnham also contributed an article about Norman Clark in the ABC-CLIO
encyclopedia, published at the end of 2003 (available in print and
electronic formats).

At 07:49 AM 2/12/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>John C. Burnham has written the following obituary.  Both John and I knew
>Professor Clark, who was an accomplished scholar and intellectual.
>
>Norman H. Clark, an outstanding social historian, died on 9 February 2004
>in LaConner WA.  He was the author of Deliver Us from Evil:  An
>Interpretation of American Prohibition (1976), still the best general book
>on American Prohibition.  He established his reputation with a classic,
>The Dry Years:  Prohibition and Social Change in Washington (1965, 2nd ed.
>1988), in which he pioneered in showing that Prohibition was not an
>aberration.  He was born in Mesa AZ on 10 May 1925.  He held a bachelors
>degree from Southern Methodist University and a Ph.D. from the University
>of Washington.  He taught for many years at Everett Community College and
>served as president of that institution.  He retired from the faculty in 1985.

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