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352 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780393066951
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: 30 November 2015
Description
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. Prohibit...
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352 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780393066951
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: 30 November 2015
Description
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. Prohibit...