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

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ISBN: 9780393066951

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Attribute name	Attribute value
Author	MCGIRR LISA
Pub Date	29/01/2016
Binding	Hardback
Pages	352

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

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A ground-breaking history of Prohibition and a new creation story for the powerful American state.

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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 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.