On the plane over here I finished Daniel Okrent’s Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition which makes for a really excellent read. I’d like to write a full review, but I don’t really have time, so instead I’ll offer a link to this post which extracts a lot of the most interesting facts.
For my part, though, I’ll say that it still seems a little bit mysterious to me how it was possible to pass and then un-pass a Prohibition constitutional amendment within such a short span of time. Under contemporary circumstances, it’s pretty much impossible to imagine amending the constitution to say anything much less to do it and then take it back.
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