The War on Alcohol
Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
Format:Paperback
Publisher:WW Norton & Co
Published:11th Jul '17
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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.
"A focused and thought-provoking book." -- The Economist
"McGirr’s ambitious book attempts to go beyond stereotypes of bootlegging, speakeasies and crime syndicates, and casts the 1920-1933 Prohibition era in a new light." -- Tony Barber, Best Books of 2016 - Financial Times
ISBN: 9780393353525
Dimensions: 211mm x 140mm x 23mm
Weight: 295g
352 pages