Prohibition: A Concise History Illustrated Edition W J Rorabaugh

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190689935
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190689933
• Author(s): W J Rorabaugh

Americans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of pressure from rural Protestants such as the hatchet-wielding Carry A. Nation and organizations such as the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and Anti-Saloon League, the states ratified the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Bolstered by the Volstead Act, this amendment made Prohibition law: alcohol could no longer be produced, imported, transported, or sold. This bizarre episode is often humorously recalled, frequently satirized, and usually condemned. The more interesting questions, however, are how and why Prohibition came about, how Prohibition worked (and failed to work), and how Prohibition gave way to strict governmental regulation of alcohol. This book answers these questions, presenting a brief and elegant overview of the Prohibition era and its legacy.

During the 1920s alcohol prices rose, quality declined, and consumption dropped. The black market thrived, filling the pockets of mobsters and bootleggers. Since beer was too bulky to hide and largely disappeared, drinkers sipped cocktails made with moonshine or poor-grade imported liquor. The all-male saloon gave way to the speakeasy, where together men and women drank, smoked, and danced to jazz.

Table contents:

Introduction
Chapter 1: Drinking and Temperance
Chapter 2: The Dry Crusade
Chapter 3: Prohibition
Chapter 4: Repeal
Chapter 5: Legacies
Notes
Further Reading
Index

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