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NEARLY a century after America fleetingly banned alcohol, Prohibition seems like a charming absurdity. The rise of moonshine and speakeasies before the Great Depression seems more like Hollywood than history. But Prohibition was no joke for the working classes, writes Lisa McGirr in “The War on Alcohol”, a focused and thought-provoking book.
When the 18th Amendment banning the sale of alcohol was passed in 1919, it was targeted at the saloons where men gathered after work for beer and conversation. “I believe that alcoholism threatens the destruction of the white race,” said Charles Eliot, the president of Harvard University. Such sentiments were common among the reformers.
Thus began what Ms McGirr, a professor at Harvard, describes as the “boldest effort to remake private behaviour in the nation’s history”. Neighbourhood saloons closed, home distilleries opened and drinking moved underground, to homes and speakeasies and even athletic clubs. The protests of the...
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