The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State - Softcover

McGirr, Lisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393353524 ISBN 13: 9780393353525

Publisher: WW Norton & Co, 2016

Synopsis

Prohibition has long been portrayed as a “noble experiment” that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers and speakeasies. Now Lisa McGirr dismantles this myth to reveal a much more significant history. Prohibition was the seedbed for a pivotal expansion of the federal government and the genesis of America’s contemporary penal state.

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About the Author

Lisa McGirr is Professor of History at Harvard University, where she specializes in the history of the twentieth-century United States. Her research and teaching interests bridge the fields of social and political history and focus on collective action, state building, reform movements, and politics. Her most recent book, The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State, won acclaim for excavating the significant but neglected state-building legacies of national Prohibition. Her award-winning first book, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right, investigated the social and regional basis of grassroots conservative politics in the post–World War II United States. She teaches a wide variety of courses on the history of the United States in the twentieth century.

Edition details

• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393353524
• ISBN 13: 9780393353525
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352