"Prohibition Is Here to Stay": The Reverend Edward S. Shumaker and the Dry Crusade in America

Acknowledgments

vii Acknowledgments Writing a book is a massive undertaking that leaves the author with a long list of people to thank. Let me start with my parents, Jack and Juanita Lantzer, who instilled in me as a child a love of learning and the importance of faith. Without either of these two things this book would not have been completed. I owe thanks to all my family and friends, including the ones whom this project consumed, for their generosity of spirit and their guidance as well as for many welcome distractions along the way. When it comes to the latter, perhaps the most important have been the annual guys’ weekends shared with Dave Botset and Jeremy Martin, and the fun times I have had with my godson, Jack Sciaudone. And without the love and support of my in-laws, the Honorable James and Kathy Heuer, and Bill and Susan Hebert, it is a safe bet that this book would never have advanced beyond the dissertation phase. Indeed, the book started life as the culmination of a doctoral degree at Indiana University. I am indebted to my alma mater in many ways, but none more so than in allowing me to work with James Madison, Claude Clegg, Michael Grossberg, and Stephen Stein on this project. And while they may not recognize it, Irving Katz, Nick Cullather, Larry Friedman, and David Thelen also influenced this viii | Acknowledgments effort. The History Department’s grants and awards helped to make the research and writing possible as well as to give me a cohort of friends and critics in Chad Parker, Matt Stanard, and Fred Witzig. That kind of institutional support, in terms of finances as well as colleagues, has followed me wherever I have gone since this project began nearly a decade ago. My thanks for the former go to the Cushwa Center at the University of Notre Dame, the Southern Baptist Library and Archives, the Congregational Library and Archives, and the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum. For the latter, I thank the history departments of IUPUI (especially Bob Barrows ), Butler University, and Franklin College together with those students of mine who suffered through lectures on Prohibition. I would be remiss if I did not also thank the staffs of the various churches, archives, and libraries (listed in the bibliography in full) for their help. At the University of Notre Dame Press, Barbara Hanrahan took an early interest in the project and guided it (and me) through the process of submission, outside reading, and acceptance with a good deal of grace and patience. I am also indebted to other members of the Press who took the finished manuscript and transformed it into the book you now hold in your hands. This project would not have gone forward, however, without the support of the Shumaker family. Arthur and Julia Shumaker, Edward’s son and daughter-in-law, from the moment I met them in the spring of 2000, have answered letters, submitted to interviews, showed me Greencastle, and opened Edward Shumaker’s papers to me prior to their being deposited at DePauw University in Green­ castle, Indiana. They did so without a single restriction on my research or any demands on the writing of what eventually unfolded. It has been an honor and a privilege to tell Edward Shumaker’s story, and I regret deeply that Art did not live to see its publication. As important as the Shumakers were to telling the story of Prohibition , there is one person who deserves even more credit and praise than they, my wife Erin. She not only suffered through the research, writing, and rewriting but also served as proofreader, research assistant , and legal analyst. Moreover, during the course of my pre­ Acknowledgments | ix occupation with Shumaker, she gave birth to our two children, Kate and Nick, who will never know their father to be anything but a professional historian and who bring both their mother and father nothing but joy. It is to Erin that this book, with all the love that a husband can muster, is dedicated. ...