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Smashing the Liquor Machine
- A Global History of Prohibition
- De: Mark Lawrence Schrad
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 29 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8
When most people think of the prohibition era, they think of speakeasies, rum runners, and backwoods fundamentalists railing about the ills of strong drink. In other words, in the popular imagination, it is a peculiarly American history. Yet, as Mark Lawrence Schrad shows in Smashing the Liquor Machine, the conventional scholarship on prohibition is extremely misleading for a simple reason: American prohibition was just one piece of a global phenomenon.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I’d love to say it takes a hatchet to temperance myths…
- De L. King en 04-05-23
- Smashing the Liquor Machine
- A Global History of Prohibition
- De: Mark Lawrence Schrad
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
I’d love to say it takes a hatchet to temperance myths…
Revisado: 04-05-23
But the book is actually more of a scalpel that carefully, methodically, and completely disassembles those myths then just as carefully assembles a more accurate narrative. And that narrative is a revelation—and not just for people interested in history. I strongly recommend this book to people renegotiating their own relationships with alcohol, not because it pushes sobriety ( it absolutely doesn’t), but because it sheds so much light on how powerful commercial and government interests engineer addiction for profit. And on how some of the greatest men and women in history have fought back.
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