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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- World Map -- Chapter 1 Historical Background on Prohibition -- 1. Prohibition: An Overview -- 2. A Senate Supporter of Prohibition Speaks in Its Favor -- 3. Opponents React to the Ruling That the Eighteenth Amendment Is Constitutional -- 4. College Officials Express a Belief That Prohibition Is a Success -- 5. Prohibition Proved Impossible to Enforce -- 6. Women Were Instrumental in Bringing About the Repeal of Prohibition -- 7. President Roosevelt Proclaims the End of Prohibition -- Chapter 2 Controversies Surrounding Prohibition -- 1. The Liquor Business Is an Evil That Must Be Eradicated -- 2. To Prohibit Alcohol by a Constitutional Amendment Would Be Wrong -- 3. Prohibition Is Necessary During Wartime to Conserve Food and Labor -- 4. Prohibition Is an Unjustifiable Violation of Personal Liberty -- 5. The Restriction of Liberty Imposed by Prohibition Is Justified -- 6. The Volstead Act Should Be Repealed -- 7. The Volstead Act Should Be Revised to Permit the Sale of Beer and Wine -- 8. A Presidential Commission Opposes the Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment -- 9. Prohibition Is the Cause of the United States' Continuing Economic Depression -- 10. Today's War on Drugs Has Created the Same Problems That the Prohibition of Alcohol Did -- 11. Today's War on Drugs Is Not Comparable to the Failure of Alcohol Prohibition -- Chapter 3 Personal Narratives -- 1. A Man Recalls What It Was Like to Be a Teen During Prohibition -- 2. A Law Enforcement Organization Remembers an African American Prohibition Agent -- 3. A Former Prohibition Agent Describes Gathering Evidence of Bootlegging -- 4. Making Bootleg Wine in California -- Glossary -- Chronology -- For Further Reading -- Index -- Back Cover

Intro -- Contents -- 1: The Prohibition Era: America Goes Dry -- 2: Prohibition's Roots -- 3: The Prohibition Movement Gains Momentum -- 4: The Battle for a Prohibition Amendment -- 5: Defying the Ban: Moonshine and Speakeasies -- 6: Bootleggers, Rumrunners, and Gangsters -- 7: The Road to Repeal -- 8: Prohibition's Legacy -- Chronology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- Photo Credits -- Index -- About the Author.

Abstract:Traditional accounts of the Eighteenth and Twenty-first Amendments to the U.S. Constitution largely ignore the role of the major political parties. We argue that partisan politics was an integral part of the constitutional politics of this period. The need to manage divisions within both parties' electoral coalitions during the transition from the third to the fourth-party systems led to the enactment of the Eighteenth Amendment without support from either national party. While most accounts trace prohibition's demise to widespread noncompliance and the graft it generated, we argue that elite congressional support for prohibition gave way when civil service reforms removed federal prohibition agents as patronage resources. We also argue that by giving states control of designing state conventions, and thereby risking state malapportionment of conventions, Democrats succeeded in overcoming the traditional fissures that divided their southern and northern wings.