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Prohibition - The Era of Excess (Paperback, Main)
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Prohibition - The Era of Excess (Paperback, Main)
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The prohibition of liquor in the United States from 1920 to 1933
created the myth of the flapper and gangster. Andrew Sinclair's
account was the first comprehensive study and it shows how this
extraordinary experiment was the product of the age-old conflict of
country against city, of the God-fearing farmer against the corrupt
urban rich and the new immigrants with their imported religions and
beer. Prohibition represented the last attempt of rural America to
stem the tide of history that was transforming the country from an
agricultural to an industrial nations. It stood for tradition and
the old American way of life. Its defeat was tragedy as well as a
comedy. The lessons of such an attempt at social control are
relevant to all societies, old and new. 'This is a definitive
biography of an era; a social history, comprehensive, detailed,
documented, and well written.' Arthur Weinberg, Chicago Tribune
'Here is a work of real social history, at once scholarly and
entertaining, thoughtful, penetrating and analytical.' John A.
Garraty, The New Leader
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