Battling Demon Rum: The Struggle for a Dry America, 1800-1933 (American Ways) - Tapa blanda

A concise, accessible history. * Reason * Smoothly written. * CHOICE * An informative and readable chronicle...a timely historical text. -- John Powers * The Boston Globe * The best short history available of the politics and practices of American temperance reform...highly recommended. * Library Journal * These long-dead battles put our own lesser war on cigarettes and narcotics (but bizarrely not alcohol) in sharp relief. -- Christopher Caldwell * The Wall Street Journal * Excellent...Pegram's book is more than the 'noble experiment' [of Prohibition]; it is about all the experiments leading up to it and why they, too, failed. -- Roger K. Miller * Chicago Sun-Times *

A narrative account of the fight to regulate alcohol, from roughly 1800 to the repeal of national prohibition in 1933. An intriguing tale of social reform and of the limits of government-imposed morality. "The best short history available of the politics and practices of American temperance reform....Highly recommended."-Library Journal. American Ways Series.