The Rise and Fall Of Prohibition
by Charles Hanson Towne
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About this eBook
- Author
- Towne, Charles Hanson, 1877-1949
- Title
- The Rise and Fall of Prohibition The Human Side of What the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act Have Done to the United States
- Credits
- Produced by ellinora, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare
- Subject
- Prohibition -- United States
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 60617
- Release Date
- November 2, 2019
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE RISE AND FALL OF PROHIBITION
- 2.AUTHOR’S NOTE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.THE RISE AND FALL OF PROHIBITION
- 5.CHAPTER I THE PHENOMENON OF PROHIBITION
- 6.CHAPTER II OUR GREAT UNHAPPINESS
- 7.CHAPTER III OUR ENDLESS CHAIN OF LAWS
- 8.CHAPTER IV TOO MUCH “VERBOTEN”
- 9.CHAPTER V MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR DE-MOCKERY-CY
- 10.CHAPTER VI THE INFAMOUS VOLSTEAD ACT
- 11.CHAPTER VII A TRIUMVIRATE AGAINST PROHIBITION
- 12.CHAPTER VIII “THE FEAR FOR THEE, MY COUNTRY”
- 13.CHAPTER IX DRYING UP THE OCEAN
- 14.CHAPTER X THE MULLAN-GAGE LAW, THE VAN NESS ACT AND THE HOBERT ACT
- 15.CHAPTER XI BOOTLEGGING AND GRAFT
- 16.CHAPTER XII “DON’T JOKE ABOUT PROHIBITION”
- 17.CHAPTER XIII HOW CANADA HAS SOLVED THE LIQUOR PROBLEM
- 18.CHAPTER XIV CRIME AND DRUNKENNESS
- 19.CHAPTER XV THE LITERARY DIGEST’S CANVASS
- 20.CHAPTER XVI LITERATURE AND PROHIBITION
- 21.CHAPTER XVII AMERICA TODAY
- 22.CHAPTER XVIII OTHER REFORMS
- 23.CHAPTER XIX IS EUROPE GOING DRY?
- 24.CHAPTER XX WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
- 25.Transcriber’s Notes
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