How Prohibition Backfired on America | Daniel Okrent
This is a Vintage episode from 2010.
Why This Episode Matters
How a freedom-loving nation came to outlaw the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol through a constitutional amendment.
Why women’s suffrage, progressive reformers, wealthy industrialists and economic politics created unexpected alliances on both sides of Prohibition.
How Prohibition fueled corruption and organized crime while weakening Americans’ respect for the law.
Why speakeasies helped create nightclubs, cocktail parties and social drinking among men and women.
The Banter
Mark Pascal and Francis Schott debate a New…
The skinny
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