Mark Lawrence Schrad is an associate professor of political science at Villanova University. His books include Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State and The Political Power of Bad Ideas: Networks, Institutions, and the Global Prohibition Wave.
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When most people think of the prohibition era, they think of speakeasies, rum runners, and backwoods fundamentalists railing about the ills of strong drink. In other words, in the popular imagination, it is a peculiarly American history. Yet, as Ma... SEE MORE