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Repeal and Reckoning: How the Depression Dismantled Prohibition
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When breadlines replaced speakeasies as America's defining image, Prohibition's moral authority collapsed — and the organised crime empire it built was already too powerful to ignore. This chapter traces the Depression's role in ending the Great Experiment and tallies the true cost of thirteen years of legislative overreach.
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When an economy collapses and people are standing in breadlines, a law that bans alcohol stops looking like moral progress. It starts looking like a luxury the country can't afford.
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