Description: Thomas Pegram's narrative account of the fight to regulate alcohol traces the moral and political offensives of the temperance advocates, and shows how their tactics and organization reflected changes in the nation's politics and social structure. The failures of prohibition ...
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"A concise, accessible history." --Reason
"Smoothly written." --Choice Reviews "An informative and readable chronicle...a timely historical text." --John Powers, The Boston Globe "The best short history available of the politics and practices of American temperance reform...highly recommended." --Library Journal "These long-dead battles put our own lesser war on cigarettes and narcotics (but bizarrely not alcohol) in sharp relief." --Christopher Caldwell, The Wall Street Journal "Excellent...Pegram's book is more than the 'noble experiment' [of Prohibition]; it is about all the experiments leading up to it and why they, too, failed." --Roger K. Miller, Chicago Sun-Times