Prohibition by Ken Burns
A very excellent documentary, and one that make me want to go and read books by the people who were on the documentary. One of them is on ebook at KCLS, and I got a copy of the one that seems most apropos; A Drinking Life. We'll see how good it is after I finish the two I'm reading now.
The take-away message does seem to be that you can't legislate morality, with a side bonus of if you don't fund the enforcement, people will break the law. The entire thing is, as edited, very apropos to today, and I think that there's some very interesting parallels in the story to today. Like much (if not all) of Burns's other work, it is well worth the watching.
The take-away message does seem to be that you can't legislate morality, with a side bonus of if you don't fund the enforcement, people will break the law. The entire thing is, as edited, very apropos to today, and I think that there's some very interesting parallels in the story to today. Like much (if not all) of Burns's other work, it is well worth the watching.