Americans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of pressure from rural Protestants such as the hatchet-wielding Carry A. Nation and organizations such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and Anti-Saloon League, the states ratified th
Prohibition
โ Scribed by W. J. Rorabaugh
- Book ID
- 109834527
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 4 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780190689940
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