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Summary: Okrent explores the origins, implementation, and failure of that great American delusion known as Prohibition. This book explains how Prohibition happened, what life under it was like, and what it did to the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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Summary: An anecdotal history of America's professional baseball teams
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1989
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Summary: Eugenicist arguments ranking the presumed genetic virtue of various ethnic groups helped keep hundreds of thousands of Jews, Italians, and other unwanted groups out of the United States for more than forty years. By 1921 Vice President Calvin Coolidge declared that 'biological laws' had proven the inferiority of southern and eastern Europeans; the restrictive law that remained U.S. policy until...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019