![]() ![]() Despite writing of the evils of alcohol, he can't help repeatedly emphasising how his "superior constitution" allowed him to out drink nigh everybody he ever met and recover faster, too. Macho pride is a prominent, almost defining aspect of London's character, in fact. ![]() Hence, those looking for the story of Jack's life may be very frustrated as he ignores the details of his many adventures in favour of describing his many bouts of binge drinking and his slow descent into alcoholism (though he never admits to being an alcoholic - a mixture of macho pride and the era's poor understanding of addiction preventing). It just so happens that London chose his own drinking career to illustrate his argument. It's clearly and openly a Prohibitionist tract, published seven years before Prohibition came to pass. This isn't an autobiography in the conventional sense. ![]()
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