Szymanski, Ann-Marie E. “Prohibition in the United States Came About Primarily because of World War I.” In Prohibition's Greatest Myths: The Distilled Truth About America's Anti-Alcohol Crusade, edited by Michael Lewis and Richard F. Hamm. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020.
World War I accelerated rather than created national Prohibition.
Ann-Marie E. Szymanski, “Prohibition in the United States Came About Primarily because of World War I,” in Prohibition's Greatest Myths: The Distilled Truth About America's Anti-Alcohol Crusade, ed. Michael Lewis and Richard F. Hamm (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020), PDF sheets 88–89.
Ann-Marie E. Szymanski, “Prohibition in the United States Came About Primarily because of World War I,” in Prohibition's Greatest Myths: The Distilled Truth About America's Anti-Alcohol Crusade, ed. Michael Lewis and Richard F. Hamm (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020), PDF sheets 88–89.
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Szymanski, “Prohibition in the United States Came About Primarily because of World War I,” PDF sheets 88–89.
Myth 4 — World War I as catalyst
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