Al Capone All American: Prohibition

Description:This week, on the next installment of "Al Capone All-American," Dan and Alana turn to the greatest gift Al Capone could have asked for on his 21st birthday: the national prohibition on the sale and manufacture of alcohol. From the Ku Klux Klan, to poisoned rotgut liquor, to the singularly forgotten political genius behind the law, prohibition would come to define an entire era of American history--a story freshly relevant today.SourcesHistorian Mario Gomes's excellent website, My Al Capone Museum (https://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/)The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State by Lisa McGirrBootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition by Karen BlumenthalProhibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America by Edward BehrSmashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition by Mark Lawrence SchradOne Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s by Thomas R. PegramProhibition: A Very Short Introduction by W.J. RorabaughAlcoholics AnonymousAl Capone’s Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago During Prohibition by John BinderThe Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America by Gus RussoGangland Chicago: Criminality and Lawlessness in the Windy City by Richard C. LindbergProhibition Gangsters: The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation by Marc MappenThe Wicked City: Chicago From Kenna to Capone by Curt Johnson with R. Craig SautterMr. Capone: The Real - and Complete - Story of Al Capone, by Robert J. SchoenbergYoung Al Capone: The Untold Story of Scarface in New York, 1899-1925 by William and John BalsamoCapone: The Life and World of Al Capone by John KoblerCapone: The Man and the Era by Laurence BergreenNewspapers and Magazines: The Buffalo News, The Daily Item, the Springfield News-Sun, the Hartford Courant, Los Angeles Times, Washington Daily News, Brooklyn Daily Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune.---The Outfit is a production of Higher Ground and Headgum.Hosted by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope LevinsonExecutive Produced by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope LevinsonProduced by Julia MurrayProduction Assistance by CJ Archerd and Franchesca DiazSound Design and Engineering by Ryan Kozlowski and Andrew EapenShow theme is Bittersweet Defeat by OTELike the show? Rate The Outfit on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review.Follow Headgum on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok. Advertise on The Outfit via Gumball.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.