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Just finished Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent.
Talk about unintended consequences. The struggle to pass the 18th Amendment led to women's sufferage, the rise of organized crime syndicates as we know them today, income tax(if you destroy the nation's fifth largest industry you have to replace the tax revenue with something), plea bargaining, NASCAR, and the cruise industry.
Definitely a must read if you are at all interested in that era of American History.
Last edited by BenG; 09-14-2010 at 11:10 AM.
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