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A groundbreaking history of Prohibition and a new creation story for the powerful American state.
Prohibition has long been portrayed as a “noble experiment” that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to reveal a much more significant history. Prohibition was the seedbed for a pivotal expansion of the federal government, the genesis of our contemporary penal state. Her deeply researched, eye-opening account uncovers patterns of enforcement still familiar today: the war on alcohol was waged disproportionately in African American, immigrant, and poor white communities. Alongside Jim Crow and other discriminatory laws, Prohibition brought coercion into everyday life and even into private homes. Its targets coalesced into an electoral base of urban, working-class voters that propelled FDR to the White House.
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.
The War on Alcohol is history at its best―original, authoritative, and illuminating of our past and its continuing presence today.
8 pages of illustrations- Sales Rank: #106543 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.60" h x 1.30" w x 6.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 352 pages
Review
“In this remarkable book, Lisa McGirr transforms our understanding of Prohibition and its legacy. Moving beyond familiar tales of speakeasies and gangland violence, she shows how this episode contributed to the expansion of the authority of the modern American state and the origins of mass imprisonment. No history could be more timely.” (Eric Foner, author of Gateway to Freedom)
“McGirr’s book, fascinating and deeply researched, offers a startlingly fresh argument for why so many of our current problems―from the war on drugs to mass incarceration―grow out of Prohibition. Anyone who wants to understand the 1920s, 1930s, and 2000s should read this book.” (Jonathan Alter, author of The Defining Moment)
“This is not just the best book ever written about the era of Prohibition; it is a landmark history of modern America. With splendid insight and illuminating details, Lisa McGirr demonstrates that the war on alcohol was the health of the state.” (Michael Kazin, author of American Dreamers)
“In her revelatory new book, Lisa McGirr moves Prohibition from the gin-soaked edges of the Roaring Twenties to the heart of the American state.” (Kevin Boyle, author of Arc of Justice)
“[A] fascinating account of Prohibition and its consequences, written with verve, depth, and imagination.” (Ira Katznelson, author of Fear Itself)
“Lisa McGirr has given us an admirably fresh look at a supposedly shopworn subject. She convincingly demonstrates that the Prohibition era deserves to be taken seriously as the nursery of many stubbornly persistent practices, including a moralizing, meddlesome state that targets its punitive powers on the least-advantaged citizens.” (David M. Kennedy, author of Freedom from Fear)
About the Author
Lisa McGirr is professor of history at Harvard University. She is the author of The War on Alcohol and an award-winning history of the new right, Suburban Warriors. She and her family live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
The War on Alcohol ...alcohol won!
By Carl Rennhack
I was in the fourth grade (in 1960) when I first heard about Prohibition. As soon as I did I made a beeline for Grandpa Rennhack's apartment (right above where Mom & I lived) and asked the soon-to-retire Rheingold Brewery worker how did he (and his father) fare between January 1920 and December 1933. "Gramp & me made near-beer, less than 0.5% alcohol. We drove it to flower stores, drug stores, pool halls. What happened to it after that didn't concern us." But Ms. McGirr reminds us it concerned a lot of people on both sides of one of the most unpopular laws in USofA history. Its effects are still felt in 2015. Most of the people who lived through Prohibition have passed on, ergo we need books like this one to tell the story of a seemingly unbelievable era...although I've no doubt Grandpa and Gramp could have added more to the story! Read this book as an introduction to the subject.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Terrific insights
By Jon Hunt
"The social experiment that didn't work" is how many people remember or were taught about prohibition. In her wonderful book, "The War on Alcohol", Lisa McGirr delves into what prohibition meant and what it also did to people. Perhaps the most underscored part of the book is what prohibition did to crime and the increased levels of arrest and incarceration that often followed. But the author relates how prohibition affected women and minorities...i.e. how many poor women had their own stills to garner extra income.
The political shift from the working class from the Republicans to the Democrats is also well-documented. With President Hoover's wish to crack down harder on enforcement he left the door open to a whole new order of people who helped elect FDR in 1932. "The War on Alcohol" is superbly written and I highly recommend it.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Their recommendations included many of those which are recommended today, the main one being the security of ...
By Lady Haase
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The War on Alcohol, Prohibition and the rise of the American State by Lisa McGirr
Ms. Lisa McGirr has produced a historical account of prohibition and its effect on the American people.
Filled with references and comments, it is not a book to read without attention and with determination.
Minorities such as immigrants and blacks were targeted, as the majority of Americans believed that these foreigners were responsible for the ills that alcohol caused. It is true that immigration from European countries caused an increase in the numbers of the alcohol imbibing public. This was/is part of their homeland experience. It is also true that the number of saloons increased and did the uncontrolled drinking. Drunkenness among the immigrants was seen as an increase of abandonment of families, theft and destruction of public property. A very important effect of the saloons was the gathering of immigrants to organize into political parties to obtain a voice in America.
A constitutional amendment was voted into the law to stop drinking and its evils. No one considered or understood the implications, one of which was the “rise of collusion among police, grafters and gangsters.” (164) Many enforcers used this amendment to harass immigrants and blacks. The KKK was born and “run” by deeply prejudiced people who saw this was the way to attack blacks and immigrants.
In the South, many immigrants fled north or west to save their lives and whatever monies they had. Unfortunately, Black felt stuck on their lands and did not flee as readily. The numbers of crimes committed increased so that state prisons were filled to overflowing.
Herbert Hoover, elected president in 1928, appalled by the increase in lawlessness in the country began drawing all power of enforcement to the federal government. He commissioned studies to discern the nature of the problems of crime. Although many writers included the plight of the uneducated black, few listened. Their recommendations included many of those which are recommended today, the main one being the security of employment. Instead, Hoover instituted the national penal system, which gave the national and local government greater control/coercion over the populace. Unfortunately, Hoover did nothing to help the masses of Americans suffering through the Great Depression. It took the Roosevelt administration to deal with the crises after Prohibition repealed.
As an aside, Ms. McGirr does not mention the advance of crime becoming organized as a result of Prohibition. People wanted their drink. Criminals were happy to provide bootleg whisky. Their bosses ruled who got when, where and how. They compromised police and local and state government and other officials. They also gave us legends as like Bonnie and Clyde, the Hole in the Wall Gang, Dutch Schultz, and Al Capone and Bugs Moran.
Ms. McGirr’s work would have been strengthened, if she has included this side of the Prohibition saga
For those who have had scant reading in this fascinating period of American history, the book’s information is clearly written, annotated and discussed.
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