Alcohol, Prohibition, and the Revenuers

Freeman | January 1, 2008| | Copyright

The standard account of America's experience with alcohol Prohibition centers on ideology. This account states that citizens were so infused with Progressive hubris that they set forth in 1919 on a futile quest to mandate morality by banning the manufacture and sale of liquor. But when they recognized that Prohibition was failing, Americans abandoned the "noble experiment."

The standard account contains grains of truth. Undoubtedly, many Americans during the Progressive era possessed a fervent faith in democratic government and a burning desire to "uplift" the lot of humankind. The temperance ...

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