Description
This fascinating history chronicles America’s unlikely journey from a nation steeped in alcohol to the adoption of Prohibition—and ultimately its repeal in 1933. It explores the determined activists and political strategists who transformed temperance into constitutional law, then examines how Prohibition reshaped everyday life, industry, law enforcement, and organized crime, from speakeasies and bootlegging to corruption and loopholes. With wit, narrative energy, and sharp historical insight, the book presents Prohibition as more than a failed experiment in regulating drinking: it was a struggle over morality, identity, immigration, modernity, and the changing character of the nation.
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paperback
Scribner
Published Jan 1, 2010
468 pages
ISBN: 9780743277020
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Details
First Published
2010
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Last Call by Daniel Okrent.