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Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America - Edward Be ...

"We tend to forget an important lesson: that those who know no history condemn themselves to repeat it, either as tragedy or [as] farce." The closing sentence of this fascinating history of America's failed experiment in social control, and for once I don't agree with what the author says. It isn't either/or: it's both. Not either tragedy or farce, but both tragedy AND farce. That is true now of America's and most of the rest of the world's attempts to prevent the sale and consumption of drugs like marijuana, cocaine, and heroine, and was true from 1920 to 1933 of America's attempts to prevent the sale and consumption of alcohol. Farce and ...