The Restaurant Guys

How Prohibition Backfired on America | Daniel Okrent

July 23, 2026·44 min
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This is a Vintage episode from 2010. Why This Episode Matters How a freedom-loving nation came to outlaw the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol through a constitutional amendment.Why women’s suffrage, progressive reformers, wealthy industrialists and economic politics created unexpected alliances on both sides of Prohibition.How Prohibition fueled corruption and organized crime while weakening Americans’ respect for the law.Why speakeasies helped create nightclubs, cocktail parti...

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