[PDF] Wrecking Of The Eighteenth Amendment eBook

Author : Ernest B. Gordon
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 30,82 MB
Release : 1943
Category : Alcoholism
ISBN :

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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.

Author : Richard F. Hamm
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 0807861871

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Richard Hamm examines prohibitionists' struggle for reform from the late nineteenth century to their great victory in securing passage of the Eighteenth Amendment. Because the prohibition movement was a quintessential reform effort, Hamm uses it as a case study to advance a general theory about the interaction between reformers and the state during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Most scholarship on prohibition focuses on its social context, but Hamm explores how the regulation of commerce and the federal tax structure molded the drys' crusade. Federalism gave the drys a restricted setting--individual states--as a proving ground for their proposals. But federal policies precipitated a series of crises in the states that the drys strove to overcome. According to Hamm, interaction with the federal government system helped to reshape prohibitionists' legal culture--that is, their ideas about what law was and how it could be used. Originally published in 1995. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Kenneth D. Rose
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 23,9 MB
Release : 1997-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0814774660

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Rose (history, California State U.) analyzes the political mechanisms used to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcohol. What makes the work unique is his emphasis on the role of women's organizations in both prohibition and repeal, and how the arguments used by women's organizations to promote the Eighteenth Amendment in 1923 were used by opponents to repeal it in 1933--specifically, the idea of "home protection," which was a socialist feminist ideology held by both groups. The author is dedicated to recovering the history of politically conservative women who have been traditionally ignored or dismissed in other historical studies. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 35,82 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780873386722

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A study of the political reaction against the 18th Amendment, a response that led to its reversal 14 years later by the 21st Amendment. This work uses archival evidence to examine the liquor ban and to draw attention to the bi-partisan movement led by the Association Against Prohibition Amendment.

Author : Norman H. Clark
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,69 MB
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0295800011

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On the event of its publication in 1965, Murray Morgan wrote, The Dry Years, which might be subtitled �The Fall and Rise of John Barleycorn,� is a delightful blend of scholarship, narrative exposition and wit. ...Clark is knowing and acid about alcohol as a class problem. he points out that the drys were usually led by upperclass types whose peers would derive benefit by better habits in the working class. He does not, however, fall into the trap of attributing the attitudes of the reformers to hypocrisy. The drys were awash with sincerity. ...It is one of the many merits of this delightful book that Norman Clark does not rub our noses in the fact that though times change, problems remain. In this substantially updated edition of the classic story of a region�s experience with Prohibition, Norman Clark reviews to the present the political history of liquor control in Washington State, and issue taken seriously in the state and the nation as those of black slavery, wage slavery, and child welfare. He traces the effect of social change upon liquor morality through nearly two hundred years of efforts to make the use of alcohol compatible with the American view of social progress.

Author : Doris Marie Provine
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226684784

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Race is clearly a factor in government efforts to control dangerous drugs, but the precise ways that race affects drug laws remain difficult to pinpoint. Illuminating this elusive relationship, Unequal under Law lays out how decades of both manifest and latent racism helped shape a punitive U.S. drug policy whose onerous impact on racial minorities has been willfully ignored by Congress and the courts. Doris Marie Provine’s engaging analysis traces the history of race in anti-drug efforts from the temperance movement of the early 1900s to the crack scare of the late twentieth century, showing how campaigns to criminalize drug use have always conjured images of feared minorities. Explaining how alarm over a threatening black drug trade fueled support in the 1980s for a mandatory minimum sentencing scheme of unprecedented severity, Provine contends that while our drug laws may no longer be racist by design, they remain racist in design. Moreover, their racial origins have long been ignored by every branch of government. This dangerous denial threatens our constitutional guarantee of equal protection of law and mutes a much-needed national discussion about institutionalized racism—a discussion that Unequal under Law promises to initiate.

Author : Mark Edward Lender
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 18,23 MB
Release : 1987-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 002918570X

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Newly revised and updated, this engaging narrative chronicles America’s delight in drink and its simultaneous fight against it for the past 350 years. From Plymouth Rock, 1621, to New York City, 1987, Mark Edward Lender and James Kirby Martin guide readers through the history of drinks and drinkers in America, including how popular reactions to this ubiquitous habit have mirror and helped shape national response to a number of moral and social issues. By 1800, the temperance movement was born, playing a central role in American politics for the next 100 years, equating abstinence with 100-proof Americanism. And today, the authors attest, a “neotemperance” movement seems to be emerging in response to heightened public awareness of the consequences of alcohol abuse.

Author : Eileen Lucas
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 23,52 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :

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This book looks at the people behind the passage of both the Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendments to the United States Constitution. The Eighteenth Amendment established a period of prohibition, no sale, use, or distribution of any kind of alcohol was permitted in the United States. This period was filled with turmoil, as exemplified in the author's historical accounts. The Twenty-First Amendment marked the first time in United States history that an amendment to the Constitution was overturned, making the sale, use, and distribution of alcohol legal once again.