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Article: American Women and the Repeal of Prohibition.
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- Independent Review
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- September 22, 1998
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By Kenneth D. Rose New York: New York University Press, 1996. Pp. 230. $16.95 paper.
Beginning in the early nineteenth century, groups of Americans joined together to baffle the evils of liquor. Some, like the Washingtonians in the 1820s and 1830s, vowed to abstain and to support their fellow members' pledges to stay away from drink. For others, such voluntary measures were admirable but sadly lacking as a weapon against the danger the saloon posed to families, to productive labor, and to the nation's moral core. In the 1850s thirteen states passed so-called Maine Laws, which banned the sale of alcohol, although appellate courts in eight of those states overturned ...