Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent

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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio; Abridged edition (May 11, 2010) | ISBN: 0743599217 | Language: English | Audio CD in MP3 | 136 MB

Starred Review. Daniel Okrent has proven to be one of our most interesting and eclectic writers of nonfiction over the past 25 years, producing books about the history of Rockefeller Center and New England, baseball, and his experience as the first public editor for the New York Times. Now he has taken on a more formidable subject: the origins, implementation, and failure of that great American delusion known as Prohibition. The result may not be as scintillating as the perfect gin gimlet, but it comes mighty close, an assiduously researched, well-written, and continually eye-opening work on what has actually been a neglected subject.There has been, of course, quite a lot of writing that has touched on the 14 years, 1919–1933,

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