How Did a Bad Idea Like Prohibition Ever Win Majority Support?
Eighty-five years ago Congress, desperate for new revenues during the Great Depression, legalized beer. At the same time the Twenty-First Amendment to the United States Constitution repealing the dry Eighteenth Amendment was making its way through the ratification process. All forms of alcohol became legal in the United States in December 1933. The disastrous national prohibition experiment had lasted only thirteen years. Many ironies surround Prohibition. How did such a bad idea ever get adopted? How had it failed? And why was it abandoned in1933?
William Rorabaugh, the Dio Richardson Professor of History at the University of Washington, Seattle, and author of Prohibition: A Concise History (Oxford University Press, 2018), explains all here, on the History News Network.
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