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The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
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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 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.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Country
United States
Date
6 January 2016
Pages
352
ISBN
9780393066951

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.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Country
United States
Date
6 January 2016
Pages
352
ISBN
9780393066951