Last callDaniel Okrent, Richard Poe
Last call
by Daniel Okrent, Richard Poe · first published 2010
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Okrent explores the origins, implementation, and failure of that great American delusion known as Prohibition. "Last Call" explains how Prohibition happened, what life under it was like, and what it did to the country.
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If you find this interesting, I highly recommend the book "Last Call: Rise and Fall of the Prohibition" by Daniel Okrent. There is a PBS documentary as well, but I found it difficult to watch (narration with lots of panning over still photos). The prohibition is a really…
on “How the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition (2010)” ↗…without alcohol prohibition in the first place, but ending it was certainly a net win. If you're interested in the history and parallels of alcohol prohibition to today's drug prohibition, Daniel Okrent's Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition is pretty good: http://www.amazon.com/Last-Call-Rise-Fall-Prohibition/dp/074... .
on “Destroying drug cartels, the mathematical way” ↗…obey the law than not; as I said in another comment, you may notice that, after the U.S. ended alcohol prohibition, almost no one sold alcohol illegally because it wasn't worth it. Daniel Okrent's book Last Call is pretty good on this subject.
on “Destroying drug cartels, the mathematical way” ↗…days or it would ferment and become alcoholic, or even becoming jewish (10 gallons per person per year!). It really was a ban on some persons some of the time. If you're interested, read Daniel Okrent _Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition_ https://www.amazon.com/Last-Call-Rise-Fall-Prohibition/dp/07... Good thing the American public learned our lesson and never did anything stupid like that again.
on “Code of Silence” ↗…California's Sebastiani Winery, founded in 1895, survived Prohibition by supplying sacramental and medicinal wine. [5] Daniel Okrent has written extensively on Prohibition. I highly recommend his book Last Call and related talks he's given. [6] [1] https://books.google.com/books?id=vqFxq6nv4rEC&pg=PA104-IA6&... [2] http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nativeson/article/Prohibition-... [3] https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/how-wine-bricks-saved-the-u-s...…
on “The Failed War on Drugs” ↗If you find this interesting, I highly recommend Last Call by Daniel Okrent: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B003JTHVHY/ Some related tidbits from that book: Like the compressed grape bricks, grape juice was perfectly legal. And making your own wine for family…
on “Wine bricks saved the U.S. wine industry during Prohibition (2015)” ↗The author of that wrote http://www.amazon.com/Last-Call-Rise-Fall-Prohibition/dp/074... which I heard an interesting interview about on NPR. From that interview I learned that there is a lot about the politics of the day that I didn't know. For instance…
on “An illegal substance sold legally.” ↗This article is based on Okrent's "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition". There's a fascinating interview with the author on NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1266133... Specifically, the commentary on the prohibition…
on “An illegal substance sold legally.” ↗…like the show was a showcase for either one). Looking over the archive, here are some from the archive that I liked: Blakley on Fashion and Intellectual Property Okrent on Prohibition and His Book, Last Call Romer on Charter Cities Boettke on Elinor Ostrom, Vincent Ostrom, and the Bloomington School Hitchens on Orwell Kling on Freddie and Fannie and the Recent History of the U.S. Housing Market Karol…
on “Ask HN: Recommend me a Podcast” ↗According to Last Call by Daniel Okrent, Gough St was named after famed temperance orator John Bartholomew Gough. I'd assumed that was true until I saw this site. Wikipedia has support for both theories, but it looks like Charles…
on “History of San Francisco Place Names” ↗