McGirr — Spectacular whiskey stories can conceal ordinary experiences of Prohibition — PDF 10–14

McGirr argues that sensational narratives have displaced attention from ordinary workers, immigrants, poor communities, enforcement, and political mobilization. Her alternative puts differentiated local experience at the center of the history.

Lisa McGirr, The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State (W. W. Norton, supplied edition copyright 2016), Preface, physical PDF pp. 10–14 of the 334-page uploaded copy.

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