Prohibition Hangover

Garrett Peck talks about his book Prohibition Hangover while walking BookTV through one of the temperance tours he does in D.C. Not so surprising is the news that the temperance movement was led by protestants, however Garrett expands on this dynamic of the movement by talking about how this effected ethnic groups, and how the 18th amendment got passed. I had no idea that Prohibition and the temperance movement had a lot of racist sentiments and was born out of a pre-wartime fever.