Repealing National Prohibition

by KYVIG DAVID E.

• ISBN13: 9780873386722
• ISBN10: 0873386728
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr

Summary

In this new edition of the most comprehensive study of the political reaction against the Eighteenth Amendment, a response that led to its reversal fourteen years later by the Twenty-first Amendment, David E. Kyvig examines the operation of the national liquor ban, discusses central issues of U.S. constitutional development, and illuminates continuing public policy issues of alcohol and drug control.

Enjoying wide public support at first, upheld by both federal and state governments, and, most importantly, embedded in the Constitution, the Eighteenth Amendment seemed impervious to change. Prohibition repeal required nothing short of a political earthquake -- a near-total reversal of congressional and state dry law endorsement, more than simply shifts in ethnic power and cultural taste.

Employing previously unexamined archival evidence, Kyvig calls attention to a little-known but broad-based bipartisan movement led by the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment and the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. These organizations and their

Author Biography

David E. Kyvig is Presidential Research Professor and professor of history at Northern Illinois University. His study of constitutional amendment, Explicit and Authentic Acts: Amending the U.S. Constitution, 1776-1995, received the 1997 Bancroft Prize, the Henry Adams Prize, and the Ohio Academy of History Publication Award

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Preface to First Edition	xi
Preface to Second Edition	xxi
Introduction	1	(4)
Adopting National Prohibition	5	(15)
America Sobers Up	20	(16)
New Critics	36	(17)
Kicking a Stone Wall	53	(18)
Thirsting after Righteousness	71	(27)
From the Jaws of Defeat	98	(18)
Hard Times, Hopeful Times	116	(21)
Taking Sides	137	(23)
Repeal!	160	(23)
Champagne and Sour Grapes	183	(20)
Notes	203	(42)
Bibliography	245	(22)
Index	267