Yet we did, and Last Call is Daniel Okrent’s dazzling explanation of why we did it, what life under Prohibition was like, and how such an unprecedented degree of government interference in the private lives of Americans changed the country forever. That Americans would ever agree to relinquish their booze was as improbable as it was astonishing. By the 1820s, liquor flowed so plentifully it was cheaper than tea. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World in 1630 carried more beer than water. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages.įrom its start, America has been awash in drink.
A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S.
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