Author: Wayne Bidwell Wheeler
Publisher:
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Category : Prohibition
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
The Eighteenth Amendment and Its Enforcement
Author: Wayne Bidwell Wheeler
Publisher:
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Category : Prohibition
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prohibition
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Constitution
Author: United States
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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States' Rights and National Prohibition
Author: Archibald Ewing Stevenson
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Category : Prohibition
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Publisher:
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Category : Prohibition
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
Author: Lisa McGirr
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393248798
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
“[This] fine history of Prohibition . . . could have a major impact on how we read American political history.”—James A. Morone, New York Times Book Review 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 disproportionately in African American, immigrant, and poor white communities. Alongside Jim Crow and other discriminatory laws, Prohibition brought coercion into everyday life and even into private homes. Its targets coalesced into an electoral base of urban, working-class voters that propelled FDR to the White House. This outstanding history also reveals a new genome for the activist American state, one that shows the DNA of the right as well as the left. It was Herbert Hoover who built the extensive penal apparatus used by the federal government to combat the crime spawned by Prohibition. The subsequent federal wars on crime, on drugs, and on terror all display the inheritances of the war on alcohol. McGirr shows the powerful American state to be a bipartisan creation, a legacy not only of the New Deal and the Great Society but also of Prohibition and its progeny. The War on Alcohol is history at its best—original, authoritative, and illuminating of our past and its continuing presence today.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393248798
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
“[This] fine history of Prohibition . . . could have a major impact on how we read American political history.”—James A. Morone, New York Times Book Review 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 disproportionately in African American, immigrant, and poor white communities. Alongside Jim Crow and other discriminatory laws, Prohibition brought coercion into everyday life and even into private homes. Its targets coalesced into an electoral base of urban, working-class voters that propelled FDR to the White House. This outstanding history also reveals a new genome for the activist American state, one that shows the DNA of the right as well as the left. It was Herbert Hoover who built the extensive penal apparatus used by the federal government to combat the crime spawned by Prohibition. The subsequent federal wars on crime, on drugs, and on terror all display the inheritances of the war on alcohol. McGirr shows the powerful American state to be a bipartisan creation, a legacy not only of the New Deal and the Great Society but also of Prohibition and its progeny. The War on Alcohol is history at its best—original, authoritative, and illuminating of our past and its continuing presence today.
The Twenties
Author: George Edwin Mowry
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781258285630
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Contributing Authors Include Edward Earl Purinton, Arlington Stone, Stuart Chase And Many Others.
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781258285630
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Contributing Authors Include Edward Earl Purinton, Arlington Stone, Stuart Chase And Many Others.
The Ordeal of Prohibition
Author: Clarence Darrow
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Category : Eugenics
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Eugenics
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The Prohibition Era and Policing
Author: Wesley M. Oliver
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780826521873
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A provocative history of criminal procedure, focusing on our perplexing overregulation of searches and seizures and underregulation of confessions and eyewitness accounts
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780826521873
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A provocative history of criminal procedure, focusing on our perplexing overregulation of searches and seizures and underregulation of confessions and eyewitness accounts
Twenty-first Amendment Enforcement Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
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Category : Alcohol
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Alcohol
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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The American Issue
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Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Dry Manhattan
Author: Michael A. Lerner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674040090
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
In 1919, the United States made its boldest attempt at social reform: Prohibition. This "noble experiment" was aggressively promoted, and spectacularly unsuccessful, in New York City. In the first major work on Prohibition in a quarter century, and the only full history of Prohibition in the era's most vibrant city, Lerner describes a battle between competing visions of the United States that encompassed much more than the freedom to drink.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674040090
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
In 1919, the United States made its boldest attempt at social reform: Prohibition. This "noble experiment" was aggressively promoted, and spectacularly unsuccessful, in New York City. In the first major work on Prohibition in a quarter century, and the only full history of Prohibition in the era's most vibrant city, Lerner describes a battle between competing visions of the United States that encompassed much more than the freedom to drink.