Project Gutenberg 2019-11-02 Public domain in the USA. 183 Towne, Charles Hanson 1877 1949 23006819 The Rise and Fall of Prohibition The Human Side of What the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act Have Done to the United States The phenomenon of Prohibition -- Our great unhappiness -- Our endless chain of laws -- Too much "Verboten" -- Making the world safe for de-mockery-cy -- The infamous Volstead Act -- A triumvirate against Prohibition -- "The fear for thee, my country" -- Drying up the ocean -- The Mullan-Gage Law, the Van Ness Act and the Hobert Act -- Bootlegging and graft -- "Don't joke about Prohibition" -- How Canada has solved the liquor problem -- Crime and drunkenness -- The literary digest's canvass -- Literature and Prohibition -- America today -- Other reforms -- Is Europe going dry? -- What are we going to do about it? Produced by ellinora, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The Rise and Fall of Prohibition" by Charles Hanson Towne is a historical account written in the early 20th century. The book examines the impact of the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act on American society, highlighting the unexpected consequences and complexities of Prohibition. Towne delves into the cultural and social tensions related to restrictions on alcohol, emphasizing the ways in which they have reshaped behavior and attitudes among citizens. The opening of the work introduces the perplexing nature of Prohibition, describing how it caught the American public by surprise despite the long-standing efforts of temperance advocates. Towne reflects on the irony of voters dismissing Prohibition as a mere joke only to find it thrust upon them as law. He critiques the shift in national attitude towards alcohol, arguing that Prohibition has created a culture of lawlessness and hypocrisy, where violation of laws has become commonplace, and presents a call to recognize the discontent brewing in society. The author sets the stage for a deeper exploration of these themes as he discusses the contradictions and absurdities surrounding the enforcement of Prohibition laws. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 68.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en United States. Constitution. 18th Amendment Prohibition -- United States HV Text Category: History - American Category: History - Modern (1750+) Category: Drugs/Alcohol/Pharmacology 396703 2025-06-24T07:26:49.646996 text/html 374591 2024-10-17T14:26:38 text/html 469355 2025-06-24T07:26:58.696952 application/epub+zip 466883 2025-06-24T07:26:51.539018 application/epub+zip 233725 2025-06-24T07:26:50.564006 application/epub+zip 695320 2025-06-24T07:27:03.566930 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 663875 2025-06-24T07:26:57.420991 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 303916 2022-09-27T11:40:57.552570 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 342917 2025-06-24T07:26:48.857030 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 323021 2024-10-17T14:26:37 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17609 2025-06-24T07:27:03.743917 application/rdf+xml 23482 2025-06-24T07:26:50.678005 image/jpeg 3029 2025-06-24T07:26:50.620986 image/jpeg 748612 2025-06-24T07:26:49.699987 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog