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[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 c

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Author

McGirr, Lisa, 1962-

Publisher

New York: W.W. NORTON & Company, Independent Publishers Since 1923

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393353525

Category

history

Subjects

Social Science, Political Science, Fiction

Rating

3.72 / 5 (23 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14