Temperance coalition framework is useful; distinguish amendment ratification from enactment of implementing legislation and state restrictions from national Prohibition.
The chapter interprets the Anti-Saloon League and urban saloon as competing political institutions.
The book rejects a sudden-madness explanation and links national prohibition to temperance organization, religious activism, nativism, urban immigration politics, women’s mobilization, and constitutional change.
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