{"id":11989,"date":"2022-03-18T13:35:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T12:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=202464"},"modified":"2022-03-18T13:48:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T12:48:11","slug":"prohibition-busting-myths-about-the-ban-on-booze","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/prohibition-busting-myths-about-the-ban-on-booze\/","title":{"rendered":"Prohibition: busting myths about the ban on booze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Ellie Cawthorne\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 18 March 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Mark Lawrence Schrad speaks to Ellie Cawthorne about his book <em>Smashing the Liquor Machine<\/em>, which busts commonly held myths about <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/20th-century\/prohibition-history-facts-what-when-start-why-passed-america-ban-alcohol\/&quot;\">prohibition<\/a>, revealing how campaigns to ban alcohol weren\u2019t just led by puritanical evangelicals in the US, but were also backed by progressive campaigners across the globe.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-202464-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/03\/Prohibition_scrah-d75ce01.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/03\/Prohibition_scrah-d75ce01.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/03\/Prohibition_scrah-d75ce01.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>Mark Lawrence Schrad is the author of <em>Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/smashing-the-liquor-machine-a-global-history-of-prohibition\/9780190841577&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Smashing-Liquor-Machine-History-Prohibition\/dp\/B09QXV36RW?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; 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