

The War on Alcohol
Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
Author: Lisa McGirr
Narrator: Donna Postel
Unabridged: 11 hr 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 03/30/2021
Categories: Nonfiction, Cooking, History, Us History, Modern History
Synopsis
This outstanding history also reveals a new genome for the activist American state, one that shows the DNA of the right as well as the left. It was Herbert Hoover who built the extensive penal apparatus used by the federal government to combat the crime spawned by Prohibition. The subsequent federal wars on crime, on drugs, and on terror all display the inheritances of the war on alcohol. McGirr shows the powerful American state to be a bipartisan creation, a legacy not only of the New Deal and the Great Society but also of Prohibition and its progeny.