Drug War Policy Failures
Words: 655 Pages: 2 188820"The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State," written by Lisa McGirr, a distinguished historian at Harvard College, offers a comprehensive and insightful examination of the intricate social, economic, and political forces that shaped the Prohibition era in the United States. This period, marked by the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919 and its eventual repeal in 1933, was more than just a legal battle over the consumption of alcohol; it was a profound cultural […]