Bøger af H. Paul Thompson

Popular culture has given us a very strong, and very wrong, picture of what the prohibition period was like. Prohibition's Greatest Myths aims to correct common misperceptions with ten essays by scholars who have spent their careers studying different aspects of the era.

When Atlanta enacted prohibition in 1885, it was the largest city in the US to do so. This book examines the rise of temperance sentiment among freed African Americans that made this vote possible, and the forces that resulted in its 1887 reversal well before the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution created a national prohibition in 1919.