Prohibition’s Greatest Myths The Distilled Truth about America’s Anti-Alcohol Crusade

Michael Lewis, "Prohibition’s Greatest Myths: The Distilled Truth about America’s Anti-Alcohol Crusade"
English | ISBN: 0807170380 | 2020 | 192 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The word "prohibition" tends to conjure up images of smoky basement speakeasies, dancing flappers, and hardened gangsters bootlegging whiskey. Such stereotypes, a prominent historian recently noted in the Washington Post, confirm that Americans’ "common understanding of the prohibition era is based more on folklore than fact." Popular culture has given us a very strong, and very wrong, picture of what the period was like. Prohibition’s Greatest Myths: The Distilled Truth about America’s Anti-Alcohol Crusade