The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
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Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to reveal a much more significant history. Prohibition was the seedbed for a pivotal expansion of the federal government, the genesis of our contemporary penal state. Her deeply researched, eye-opening account uncovers patterns of enforcement still familiar...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0393066959
ISBN13:9780393066951
Release Date:November 2015
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:352 Pages
Weight:1.51 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"
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