McGirr — Persistent illegal supply can coexist with intense enforcement — PDF 72–74

McGirr contrasts celebrated comic accounts of New York agents with lethal enforcement in poor rural Kentucky, then describes the expansion of federal enforcement personnel. She argues that accounts centered on evasion obscure substantial coercion directed at selected groups.

Lisa McGirr, The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State (W. W. Norton, supplied edition copyright 2016), Chapter 3, Selective Enforcement, physical PDF pp. 72–74 of the 334-page uploaded copy.

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