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

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	The Phenomenon of Prohibition	[1]
II	Our Great Unhappiness	[10]
III	Our Endless Chain of Laws	[17]
IV	Too Much “Verboten”	[26]
V	Making the World Safe for De-mockery-cy	[46]
VI	The Infamous Volstead Act	[62]
VII	A Triumvirate Against Prohibition	[83]
VIII	“The Fear for Thee, My Country”	[88]
IX	Drying Up the Ocean	[109]
X	The Mullan-Gage Law, the Van Ness Act and the Hobert Act	[120]
XI	Bootlegging and Graft	[129]
XII	“Don’t Joke About Prohibition”	[138]
XIII	How Canada Has Solved the Liquor Problem	[150]
XIV	Crime and Drunkenness	[156]
XV	The Literary Digest’s Canvass	[163]
XVI	Literature and Prohibition	[176]
XVII	America Today	[183]
XVIII	Other Reforms	[194]
XIX	Is Europe Going Dry?	[202]
XX	What Are We Going to Do About It?	[208]

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