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United States vs One Book Called Ulysses (1933) w/ Kurt Andersen

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Is the 21st Amendment the End of Prohibition?

The 21st Amendment was the end of prohibition. We were entering a new phase of liberalism, one that was less concerned with these ideas of moral censure and vice. The anti-umlessies, anti-absinity forces from the early 20th century,. certainly through the 60s and 70s, was a project of the cultural left.

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