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Originally Posted by BenG
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.
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Oh, goodie, that one's on my to-be-read list. I saw the author interviewed on The Daily Show and it sounded like the book would be interesting. Now I just have to finish Jonathan Zittrain's "The future of the Internet and how to stop it."