The War on Alcohol

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

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780393066951
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Imprint: W.W. Norton and Company
Pub date:
DEWEY: 364.17309730904
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 668g
Height: 170mm
Width: 243mm
Spine width: 31mm