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

By Lisa McGirr
Narrated by: Donna Postel
Unabridged — 11 hours, 12 minutes
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By Lisa McGirr
Narrated by: Donna Postel
Unabridged — 11 hours, 12 minutes
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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 today: the war on alcohol was waged dispr...