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Author:

McGirr, Lisa, 1962-

Title:

The war on alcohol : Prohibition and the rise of the American state / Lisa McGirr.

Edition:

First Edition.

Publisher:

W. W. Norton & Company,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xxii, 330 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Prohibition--United States.
United States--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Preface -- The making of a radical reform -- Bootleg, moonshine, and home brew -- Selective enforcement -- "Gestures of daring, signs of revolt -- Citizen warriors -- New political loyalties -- Building the penal state -- Repeal -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Summary:

Prohibition has long been portrayed as a “noble experiment” that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to reveal a much more significant history. Prohibition was the seedbed for a pivotal expansion of the federal government, the genesis of our contemporary penal state. Her deeply researched, eye-opening account uncovers patterns of enforcement still familiar today: the war on alcohol was waged disproportionately in African American, immigrant, and poor white communities. Alongside Jim Crow and other discriminatory laws, Prohibition brought coercion into everyday life and even into private homes. Its targets coalesced into an electoral base of urban, working-class voters that propelled FDR to the White House.

ISBN:

0393066959 (hardcover)
9780393066951 (hardcover)

LCCN:

2015028038

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