The Failure of the Noble Experiment: The Prohibition. This essay is about the US's prohibitin from 1920 to 1933, how it started, and why it failed.
"Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic
experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. It must be worked out constructively."
President-elect Herbert Hoover (1928)
"The Eighteenth Article of Amendment to the Constitution… is hereby
repealed."
Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution of the United States(1933)
The Prohibition, despite its good intentions, was wholly impractical. Rather than create a "dry America", a moral environment free of liquor, the ban on alcohol led to illegal …
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…Era of Excess. Boston: Little, Brown, 1962. p.83
9 Kobler, John. Ardent Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. Toronto: Putnam & Sons, 1973. p. 178
10 Chidsey, Donald Barr. On and Off the Wagon. New York: Cowles Book Company, 1969.
11 "Fiorella H. LaGuardia". Ohio State University. Online. http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/projects/prohibition/laguardi.htm. March 14, 2002
12 Warburton, D. Economic Results of Prohibition. Toronto: Thomas Allen Limited, 1988. p.111
13 Blocker Jr., Jack S. American Temperance Movements. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1989. p.120
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