The War on Alcohol
Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
Format:Hardback
Publisher:WW Norton & Co
Published:29th Jan '16
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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- Paperback£13.99(9780393353525)

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.
"... a focused and thought-provoking book." -- The Economist
ISBN: 9780393066951
Dimensions: 244mm x 165mm x 33mm
Weight: 564g
352 pages