The War on Alcohol by Lisa McGirr

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/225376 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The War on Alcohol Author: Lisa McGirr Narrator: Donna Postel Format: mp3 Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins Release date: 03-30-21 Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 16 ratings Genres: Social Publisher's Summary: 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.