How Prohibition Shaped America
Prohibition gave us speakeasies, jazz clubs and bathtub gin. But a new revisionist history uncovers a more disturbing legacy: campaigns against immigrants, the War on Drugs,and the rise of America’s “incarceration nation” . Historian Lisa McGirr’s “War on Alcohol” traces the unintended consequences of America’s experiment in collective, state-sponsored renunciation.
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