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Prohibition's Greatest Myths - The Distilled Truth about America's Anti-Alcohol Crusade (Hardcover)
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Prohibition's Greatest Myths - The Distilled Truth about America's Anti-Alcohol Crusade (Hardcover)
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The word ""prohibition"" tends to conjure up images of smoky
basement speakeasies, dancing flappers, and hardened gangsters
bootlegging whiskey. Such stereotypes, a prominent historian
recently noted in the Washington Post, confirm that Americans'
""common understanding of the prohibition era is based more on
folklore than fact."" Popular culture has given us a very strong,
and very wrong, picture of what the period was like. Prohibition's
Greatest Myths: The Distilled Truth about America's Anti-A Alcohol
Crusade aims to correct common misperceptions with ten essays by
scholars who have spent their careers studying different aspects of
the era. Each contributor unravels one myth, revealing the
historical evidence that supports, complicates, or refutes our
longA -held beliefs about the Eighteenth Amendment. H. Paul
Thompson Jr., Joe L. Coker, Lisa M. F. Andersen, and Ann Marie E.
Szymanski examine the political and religious factors in early
twentiethA -century America that led to the push for prohibition,
including the temperance movement, the influences of religious
conservatism and liberalism, the legislation of individual
behavior, and the lingering effects of World War I. From there,
several contributors analyze how the laws of prohibition were
enforced. Michael Lewis discredits the idea that alcohol
consumption increased during the era, while Richard F. Hamm
clarifies the connections between prohibition and organized crime,
and Thomas R. Pegram demonstrates that issues other than the
failure of prohibition contributed to the amendment's repeal.
Finally, contributors turn to prohibition's legacy. Mark Lawrence
Schrad, Garrett Peck, and Bob L. Beach discuss the reach of
prohibition beyond the United States, the influence of antiA
-alcohol legislation on Americans' longA term drinking habits, and
efforts to link prohibition with today's debates over the
legalization of marijuana. Together, these essays debunk many of
the myths surrounding ""the Noble Experiment,"" not only providing
a more inA -depth analysis of prohibition but also allowing readers
to engage more meaningfully in contemporary debates about alcohol
and drug policy.
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