The Bitter Aftertaste of Prohibition in American History

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The Bitter Aftertaste of Prohibition in American History
Anti-immigration sentiment flavored that cocktail ban, historians say
 
By Roger Catlin
smithsonian.com
June 8, 2018
 

For many, Prohibition recalls a freewheeling era in American history with speakeasies, bootlegging, gangsters and G-men. But new scholarship shows that several factors beyond the obvious underlay the 1920 ban on the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages.

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