The Politics of Drink
The following audio clip is excerpted from the BackStory episode “Tolerance: A History of Drink.” You can listen to the entire episode here.
Historian James Morone explains what nativism, racism, and women’s suffrage had to do with the temperance movement of the early 20th century. And he argues that Prohibition was not the abysmal failure it’s often made out to be.
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Exerpted from: Tolerance: A History of Drink
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[...] The Politics of Drink Historian James Morone explains what nativism, racism, and women’s suffrage had to do with the temperance movement of the early 20th century. And he argues that Prohibition was not the abysmal failure it’s often made out to be. [...]
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