America's 13-Year Hangover: How Prohibition Turned Grandma Into a Bootlegger and Made Al Capone Filthy Rich
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America's 13-Year Hangover: How Prohibition Turned Grandma Into a Bootlegger and Made Al Capone Filthy Rich
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The amendment, which took effect a year later, didn't just fail to eliminate drinking—it transformed America into a nation of creative lawbreakers. Respectable middle-class citizens who had never dreamed of breaking the law suddenly found themselves patronizing illegal speakeasies, where passwords and secret knocks became as American as apple pie (which, incidentally, could also be used to disguise the taste of bathtub gin).
The criminal underworld, previously a scattered collection of street thugs and small-time operators, suddenly had the opportunity of a lifetime. Organized crime syndicates flourished as bootlegging became a billion-dollar industry. Al Capone, who would become the poster child for Prohibition-era gangsters, reportedly made $60 million annually from his liquor operations alone—this at a time when the average American family earned about $2,000 per year.
Meanwhile, the government lost an estimated $11 billion in tax revenue while spending $300 million trying to enforce the unenforceable. The law created more problems than it solved: poisoned alcohol killed thousands, corruption riddled law enforcement, and the prison population exploded.
The "Noble Experiment," as Herbert Hoover optimistically called it, ended with the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933—making Prohibition the only constitutional amendment ever to be completely repealed. Sometimes democracy's greatest achievement is admitting it made a colossal mistake.
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