Use as tertiary chronology and historiographic orientation; the source does not by itself establish industry-consolidation effects after Repeal.
A long-arc synthesis useful for resisting myths that detach Prohibition from its reform networks, wartime conditions, enforcement structure, and post-Repeal settlement.
Lerner traces temperance from nineteenth-century reform through the Anti-Saloon League, wartime nationalism, constitutional Prohibition, chronic enforcement weakness, and Repeal. The account emphasizes that the movement's success and collapse were institutional and political processes, not a single moral campaign or one-event failure.
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