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Last call : the rise and fall of Prohibition, 1920-1933 by Okrent, Daniel is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p class="null1">A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages.</p> <p>From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World in 1630 carried more beer than water. By the 1820s, liquor flowed so plentifully it was cheaper than tea. That Americans would <i>ever</i> agree to relinquish their booze was as improbable as it was astonishing.</p> <p>Yet we did, and <i>Last Call</i> is Daniel Okrent’s dazzling explanation of why we did it, what life under Prohibition was like, and how such an unprecedented degree of government interference in the private lives of Americans changed the country forever.</p> <p>Writing with both wit and historical acuity, Okrent reveals how Prohibition marked a confluence of diverse forces: the growing political power of the women’s suffrage movement, which allied itself with the antiliquor campaign; the fear of small-town, native-stock Protestants that they were losing control of their country to the immigrants of
Who reads Last call : the rise and fall of Prohibition, 1920-1933?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Okrent, Daniel
- Publisher
- Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780743277020
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Social Science, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 3.87 / 5 (5,546 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14