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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.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 ever agree to relinquish their booze was as improbable as it was astonishing.Yet we did, and Last Call 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.

Who reads Last Call · The Rise and Fall of Prohibition?

Author

Okrent, Daniel

Publisher

Scribner

Published

2010

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, American Studies

Rating

3.87 / 5 (354 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13