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PBS 'Prohibition' and the Complexity of Sin
The new Ken Burns series “Prohibition” aired recently on PBS. I had done some reading on
the history of the 1920s but before my research, I thought that prohibition was a total failure. It didn’t prevent people
from drinking and it fed organized crime. But what I did not know is that Prohibition, along
with the temperance movement that led to its institution, did change the
culture of alcohol...
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