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

Lisa McGirr

Paperback (11 Jul 2017)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers and speakeasies. Now Lisa McGirr dismantles this myth to reveal a much more significant history. Prohibition was the seedbed for a pivotal expansion of the federal government and the genesis of America's contemporary penal state.

Book information

ISBN:	9780393353525
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Imprint:	W.W. Norton and Company
Pub date:	11 Jul 2017
Language:	English
Number of pages:	352
Weight:	292g
Height:	212mm
Width:	174mm
Spine width:	24mm