The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State

by Lisa McGirr

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393066959
• ISBN13: 9780393066951
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"