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

By (author) Lisa McGirr





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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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Publisher | WW Norton & Co
Published date | 29 Jan 2016
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 352
Dimensions | 244 x 165 x 33mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 564g
ISBN | 978-0-3930-6695-1
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BISAC | history / united states / 20th century


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