January 16, 1920 was the last day before things were going to change. For the following thirteen years the eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution would particularly deny each native the privilege to purchase or offer mixed beverage. Those thirteen years were to change America everlastingly: rather than controlling social conduct and killing the scourge of "the Devil's blend," Prohibition instigated Americans to curve or infringe upon the law by for all intents and purposes any methods conceivable. In these pages, Edward Behr follows the ascent of the Temperance development from Colonial times ahead. To be sure, pioneer America was a free-wheeling, hard-drinking nation. Bourbon was so ample it was regularly utilized for legitimate - and unlawful
