The New York editor and poet Charles Hanson Towne attacks the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act only a few years after they took effect, arguing that Prohibition bred hypocrisy, endless laws, contempt for authority and a nation of lawbreakers. He gathers testimony from public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt’s views on the subject.
A lively, one-sided document of the wet case in the middle of the dry decade. Download the free EPUB.