After all, the Founding Fathers drank regularly, and in ostentatious fashion. Prohibition was a doomed movement from the beginning because, above all else, it was antithetical to American principals. Okrent's final "single indisputable lesson" gleaned from Prohibition comes from bootlegger Sam Bronfman: "You people were thirsty." What's the Big Deal? It's a story of bootleggers, Prohibitionists, rumrunners, and influential women fighting in courtrooms, Congress, and basement distilleries to save America from the perils of drink, and then later to restore individual freedoms from the grasp of a more intrusive government.
Daniel Okrent writes the history of American Prohibition from the beginning of the movement in 1873 in small-town Ohio, where women knelt down in snow and spilled liquor to pray for dryness, all the way through to the 18th Amendment's repeal in 1933.
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