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TROUBLING HABITS, POISONS OF CIVILIZATION, AND STATE GROWTH - Lisa McGirr. The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2016. 352 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-393-06695-1.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 April 2018
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- The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , April 2018 , pp. 412 - 415
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