Prohibition: A Concise History

by W J Rorabaugh and W.J. Rorabaugh

Book Overview

Americans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of pressure from rural Protestants such as the hatchet-wielding Carry A. Nation and organizations such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and Anti-Saloon League, the states ratified the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Bolstered by the Volstead Act, this amendment made Prohibition law: alcohol could no longer be produced, imported,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190689935
• ISBN13: 9780190689933
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.7"