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The word prohibition tends to conjure up images of smoky basement speakeasies, dancing flappers, and hardened gangsters bootlegging whiskey. Such stereotypes, a prominent historian recently noted in the Washington Post, confirm that Americans common understanding of the prohibition era is based more on folklore than fact. Popular culture has given us a very strong, and very wrong, picture of what the period was like. Prohibitions Greatest Myths: The Distilled Truth about Americas Anti-Alcohol Crusade Read more