PROHIBITION tells the story of the rise ... MORE AND MORE, PEOPLE BEGAN TO WORRY THAT THE COUNTRY WAS BECOMING A NATION OF DRUNKARDS. AND AS THE WAGES OF MANY HUSBANDS AND FATHERS AND SONS WENT ...

As Episode 1: A Nation of Drunkards begins ... it has the power to oust politicians who dare to speak out against Prohibition. With the ratification of the income tax amendment in 1913, the ...

View profiles of people involved in prohibition. Watch video segments from the film on demand. Episode 2: "A Nation Of Scofflaws" - In 1920, Prohibition goes into effect, making it illegal to ...

While Prohibition’s popularity would wane by ... immeasurably greater than the disorderly conduct of a mob of drunkards.” The editors were just getting started. A paragraph later, they added ...

George Cassiday sold liquor to politicians between 1920 and 1930 during Prohibition. In 1930, he wrote a series of Washington ...

The legacy of Prohibition is a huge part of our nation's history, some of which is sometimes overlooked or ignored. Gangsters like Al Capone, Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel flourished under ...

Nation died in 1911, nine years before national prohibition. Her gravestone, paid for by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, states, “Faithful to the Cause, She Hath Done What She Could.” ...