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Book Review: 'Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition'

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Cover design by Rex Boronelli. (C) 2010 Last Laugh, Inc. and Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all the territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress. - The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which became the law of the land in January of 1920 "THE STREETS OF San Francisco