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The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
The War on Alcohol Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
Author: Lisa McGirr
A groundbreaking history of Prohibition that gives us a new creation story for the powerful twentieth-century American state. Prohibition, the period from 1920 to 1933 when the eighteenth amendment banned the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages nationwide, is often considered a ?noble experiment? that failed, a glamorous story of gangste...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393066951
ISBN-10: 0393066959
Publication Date: 11/30/2015
Pages: 384
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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