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Prohibition’s Greatest Myths : The Distilled Truth About America’s Anti-Alcohol Crusade by Michael Lewis; Richard Hamm; Garrett Peck; Joe Coker; Thomas R Pegram; H. Paul Thompson Jr.; Lisa M.F. Andersen; Mark Schrad; Robert Beach; Anne-Marie E Szymanski is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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The word "prohibition" tends to conjure up images of smoky basement speakeasies, dancing flappers, and hardened gangsters bootlegging whiskey. Such stereotypes, a prominent historian recently noted in the __Washington Post__, confirm that Americans' "common understanding of the prohibition era is based more on folklore than fact." Popular culture has given us a very strong, and very wrong, picture of what the period was like. __Prohibition's Greatest Myths: The Distilled Truth about America's Anti- Alcohol Crusade__ aims to correct common misperceptions with ten essays by scholars who have spent their careers studying different aspects of the era. Each contributor unravels one myth, revealing the historical evidence that supports, complicates, or refutes our long -held beliefs about the Eighteenth Amendment. H. Paul Thompson Jr., Joe L. Coker, Lisa M. F. Andersen, and Ann Marie E. Szymanski examine the political and religious factors in early twentieth -century America that led to the push for prohibition, including the temperance movement, the influences of religious conservatism and liberalism, the legislation of individual behavior, and the lingering effects of World War I. From
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- Author
- Michael Lewis; Richard Hamm; Garrett Peck; Joe Coker; Thomas R Pegram; H. Paul Thompson Jr.; Lisa M.F. Andersen; Mark Schrad; Robert Beach; Anne-Marie E Szymanski
- Publisher
- Louisiana State University Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780807173022
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Social Science, Fiction
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