Alcoholic Drinks, America, Synagogues “Prohibition took effect in January, 1920, and, all at once, people really did stop drinking, at least for a time” Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 February 2016 Prohibition took effect in January, 1920, and, all at once, people really did stop...
Alcoholic Drinks, America “In 1933, the country’s Prohibitionists had to grapple with a political fate worse than failure: oblivion” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 February 2016 In 1933, the country’s Prohibitionists had to grapple with a political fate worse than...
America “The paradox of Prohibition was that it required intrusive enforcement from a government equipped to deliver only sporadic interventions…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 February 2016 The paradox of Prohibition was that it required intrusive enforcement from a government equipped...
America “The Prohibition movement was also partly a good-government movement, and the saloons it targeted were associated not only with disorderly drunkenness but with big-city corruption…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 January 2016 Who were the Prohibitionists? Many of the leaders were, as McGirr acknowledges, Progressives, engaged...
America, Beer “Backed by a strong, anti-corporate ideology, the communities of craft beer drinkers congregate in new environments…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 January 2016 In the wake of America’s national Prohibition, public consumption of alcohol declined to a...
America “Prohibition didn’t seem frivolous at the time…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 January 2016 Prohibition didn’t seem frivolous at the time—if the comparison to abolitionism seems bizarre today,...
America “Prohibitionism, with its focus on the saloons and the immigrants who populated them, was propelled by no small amount of ethnic nationalism” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 January 2016 Prohibition was a profoundly Christian movement, delivering its message in the language of revivalism....
America “When federal Prohibition finally arrived, it was disguised as a program of wartime austerity” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 January 2016 When federal Prohibition finally arrived, it was disguised as a program of wartime austerity....
America, Politics in America “…Prohibition was not a farce but a tragedy, and one that has made a substantial contribution to our current miseries” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 January 2016 The Prohibition Party, as it was called, never became a major electoral force. But...
Beer “Home brewing was the open secret in the midst of the ban on all alcohol” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 October 2015 In the thirteen years that Prohibition was in effect, a well-known but rarely talked...