Tag: Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

Daniel Okrent, author of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, is Jon Stewarts guest.

Daniel Okrent believes the lesson to be learned from Prohibition is that the government can’t legislate against people’s appetites. There are some interesting facts to be learned here. Carrie Nation, the KKK, Women’s Suffrage Movement, the industrial workers of the world, all got involved in what has been described the biggest political manipulation in the country’s history.