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The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
ISBN: 978-0-393-35352-5
November 2016
*Norton agency titles
352 pages
Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers and speakeasies. Now Lisa McGirr dismantles this myth to reveal a much more significant history. Prohibition was the seedbed for a pivotal expansion of the federal government and the genesis of America's contemporary penal state.