Book Review: E. Summerson Carr,Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety. Princeton,NJ: Princeton University Press,2011. 323 pp. ISBN: 9780691144498 (cloth);ISBN: 9870691144504 (pbk)

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