The War on Alcohol by Lisa Mcgirr

The War on Alcohol by Lisa Mcgirr

Prohibition has long been portrayed as a “noble experiment” that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers and speakeasies. Now Lisa McGirr dismantles this myth to reveal a much more significant history. Prohibition was the seedbed for a pivotal expansion of the federal government and the genesis of America’s contemporary penal state.

"A focused and thought-provoking book" -- The Economist
"McGirr’s ambitious book attempts to go beyond stereotypes of bootlegging, speakeasies and crime syndicates, and casts the 1920-1933 Prohibition era in a new light." -- Tony Barber, Best Books of 2016 - Financial Times

Lisa McGirr is Professor of History at Harvard University, where she specializes in the history of the twentieth-century United States. Her research and teaching interests bridge the fields of social and political history and focus on collective action, state building, reform movements, and politics. Her most recent book, The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State, won acclaim for excavating the significant but neglected state-building legacies of national Prohibition. Her award-winning first book, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right, investigated the social and regional basis of grassroots conservative politics in the post–World War II United States. She teaches a wide variety of courses on the history of the United States in the twentieth century.

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ISBN 13	9780393353525
ISBN 10	0393353524
Title	The War on Alcohol
Author	Lisa Mcgirr
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	2017-07-11
Number of pages	352
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