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Harvard University
Professor of history at Harvard University and author of The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
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Lisa McGirr
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FROM Lisa McGirr
To the Point
Prohibition and America's 'War on Alcohol' Juice joints, hooch, flappers and speakeasies often come to mind when we think of the Prohibition Era, and historians have often treated it as a little more than a misguided moralistic hissy fit. The influential Richard Hofstadter called prohibition “a means by which the reforming energies of the country were transmuted into mere peevishness.”
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