Introduction -- The law's betrayal -- The Wickersham Commission -- Wall St. and repeal -- The press and prohibition -- An ecclesiastical interlude -- President Hoover and enforcement -- The triumph of Gambrinus -- The debacle -- Roosevelt and repeal -- Appendix. The 1917 memorial for national prohibition -- Varsity notes -- Toward liquor control -- A chronology of the prohibition movement -- Index
Summary
The first two years of National Prohibition, together with the preceding two of near-Prohibition, vindicated it as the ideal method of treating social alcoholism. It was as when a door opens from a dark room and then closes. It has at least revealed the difference between darkness and light. - Introduction
Notes
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