The Rise and Fall of Prohibition / The Human Side of What the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act Have Done to the United States

by Charles Hanson Towne

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THE RISE AND FALL
OF PROHIBITION

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I have seen hulking men enter a shop at nine in the morning, hastily tear off an ice-cream soda containing I know not what flavoring and dash out again into the world of business. No habitual drunkard could show a worse record. The soda-fiend is a sensualist, knowing nothing of the healthy ecstasy of comradeship. He is a solitary drinker of the worst sort.

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THE RISE AND FALL
OF PROHIBITION

THE HUMAN SIDE OF WHAT THE EIGHTEENTH
AMENDMENT AND THE VOLSTEAD ACT HAVE
DONE TO THE UNITED STATES

BY
CHARLES HANSON TOWNE

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1923

All rights reserved

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PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Copyright, 1923,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1923.

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New York, U. S. A.

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TO MY FRIEND
JOHN M. DENISON

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