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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

byDaniel Okrent

Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages. Using archival sources, narrative history, and voices from the period, Last Call moves between close observation and a wider account of the systems surrounding its subject. By placing Last Call within history, the book reveals why its central tensions extend well beyond one person, place, or moment. Readers come away with both the essential context and a sharper sense of how the rise and fall of prohibition continues to shape the present.

Publisher

Scribner

Publication date

2010

Format

Print edition

Pages

468

ISBN

9780743277044