Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America

While some individual stories are overly long, this is a well written treatise, with obvious parallels to current affairs in the United States.

PROHIBITION is a great book to read if you want to know how Prohibition came about. The first half of the book does an excellent job describing how the 18th Amendment came about and the context in which Prohibition rose. There's a lot of key historical details there. Unfortunately, placing the event in context is not something that the author does for the remainder of the work. The last half of the book describes just a few major players during the Prohibition years and the downfall of Prohibition is written more as a brief epilogue than anything else.I found PROHIBITION to be a very interesting book. I enjoyed reading it and learned a few things. However, the subtitle of the book is "Thirteen Years That Changed America" and though he does extrapolate how those thirteen years changed America, there really isn't a whole lot in the book that really describes what went on during those thirteen years. Still it is an intersting read, especially since there are so few books out about this era of America history.

I greatly enjoyed this account of a critical period of American history which, I think, is seriously under-reported. This book is a little dry at times, but overall is very readable. I didn't see the TV series, so I have no idea how it relates, but I found the framing story of the Remus murder trial very effective.I'm sorry to say that the Kindle version is riddled with typos. It looks like the text was scanned and not well proof-read. Not sure why, with print books starting out as digital files anyway, this should be the case. I don't believe the errors were enough to hurt the book, but they did make me sit up and take notice.

As a former history and government educator I always emphasized the social aspects of political and economic policies. It allowed students to understand the nature of why policies became part of our government. This very well written and easy to read hit that nail on the head. It's the real McCoy.

Very thorough and interesting history of the Prohibition, from roots in pre-colonial days through and post-1932 (repeal). While it mainly does not go deeply into personalities, the "big picture" that it gives is very concise. I also enjoyed the observations on the aftermath that the "great experiment" has had on current American society and going forward.

There is a great deal of information to absorb, but much of it is repetitive and very dry. The author spent a great deal of time focusing on a handful of individuals, including President Warren Harding. While Harding was President during the early years of prohibition, he was not a central figure in its undoing.There were numerous typographical errors throughout the book. The editor must have slept through the reading. The errors were more annoying than dysfunctional.

I did not know much about this time period in American history so it was very informative. Prohibition was a disaster.

A voodoo read about prohibition. It is surprising how many of or moral politicians were so corrupt. The. Corruption of those ones in charge of saving our souls.

very informative

A very interesting look at prohibition in the USA I did watch Boardwalk Empire on Sky which was the glamourised version of prohibition.

enjoyed the book & it held my interest.