Repealing National Prohibition - Softcover

Kyvig, David E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873386728 ISBN 13: 9780873386722

Verlag: Kent State University Press, 2000

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Book by David E Kyvig Kyvig David E

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Reseña del editor:

In this new edition of the most comprehensive study of the political reaction against the Eighteenth Amendment, a response that led to its reversal fourteen years later by the Twenty-first Amendment, David E. Kyvig examines the operation of the national liquor ban, discusses central issues of U.S. constitutional development, and illuminates continuing public policy issues of alcohol and drug control. Employing previously unexamined archival evidence, Kyvig calls attention to a little-known but broad-based bipartisan movement led by the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment and the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. These organizations ad their allies amassed political power, particularly within the Democratic party. In the midst of the Great Depression they engineered a complicated, yet very democratic process of formal constitutional change, in the end achieving the only amendment reversal in U.S. constitutional history.

Biografía del autor:

David E. Kyvig is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of History at Northern Illinois University and author or editor of ten other books, including Explicit and Authentic Acts: Amending the U.S. Constitution, 1776-1995, winner of the 1997 Bancroft Prize

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• Verlag: Kent State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0873386728
• ISBN 13: 9780873386722
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 76