The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

Narrators:Shashank Jakhmola, ScientificMethodist, TriciaG, Melanie D. Young, KevinS, PhyllisV, tommack, Linda Johnson, deni, Richard Auty

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1. The Phenomenon of Prohibition
2. Our Great Unhappiness
3. Our Endless Chain of Laws
4. ''Too Much “Verboten''
5. ''Too Much “Verboten'' Part 2
6. Making the World Safe for De-mockery-cy
7. The Infamous Volstead Act Part 1
8. The Infamous Volstead Act Part 2
9. A Triumvirate Against Prohibition
10. ''The Fear for Thee, My Country'' Part 1
11. ''The Fear for Thee, My Country'' Part 2
12. Drying Up the Ocean
13. The Mullan-Gage Law, the Van Ness Act and the Hobert Act
14. Bootlegging and Graft
15. ''Don’t Joke About Prohibition''
16. How Canada Has Solved the Liquor Problem
17. Crime and Drunkenness
18. The Literary Digest’s Canvass
19. Literature and Prohibition
20. America Today
21. Other Reforms
22. Is Europe Going Dry?
23. What Are We Going to Do About It?

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Subtitle: "The Human Side of What the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act Have Done to the United States" From Chapter 1: "The strange phenomenon of Prohibition, after an appearance amongst us of over three years, is still non-understandable to the majority of a great, and so-called free, people. It is one of the most astonishing manifestations the world has ever witnessed. It came upon us like a phantom, swiftly; like a thief in the night, taking us by surprise. Yet the Prohibitionists will tell you that no one should be amazed, since for years—for almost a century—quiet forces have been at work to bring about this very thing." - Summary by Charles Hanson Towne