Prohibition

PROHIBITION: THIRTEEN YEARS THAT CHANGED AMERICA is a fascinating look at how the 18th Amendment was doomed from the start -- how the righteous rejoiced, and the gangster flourished. How the craving for alcohol turned honest citizens into bootleggers, and criminals into millionaire celebrities. For thirteen years, corruption seeped into America’s institutions, from the police right

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Dry" divided the nation like a fault line -- highlighting the fascinating social polarities of the time: rural vs. The adoption of Prohibition heralded one of the most affluent periods of American history. Traditionally, Prohibition has been viewed as either a colorful aberration or an absolute failure.

· Izzie Einstein, whose disguises fooled bootleggers across the nation

· George Remus, the Chicago lawyer who made $40 million a year selling medicinal whisky

· Bill McCoy, the most revered rumrunner of his time, his high-quality brands coined the phrase "the real McCoy"

Three years in the making, PROHIBITION: THIRTEEN YEARS THAT CHANGED AMERICA draws on new research from across the United States, and brings to life the characters and atmosphere of the period with a cocktail of amusing and amazing personal narratives, including firsthand accounts from those who lived through Prohibition, combined with location filming, never-before-seen archive, and an original 1920s jazz soundtrack, to bring the era to life. "But as the show unfolds, one comes to realize that their purpose was noble and their end was noble. who got Capone on tax evasion, a jazz musician given his break by Capone, a high society flapper, and the first man on the scene at the St. up to the White House, forever changing the country’s morals and attitudes towards law enforcers, politicians, authority, and the role of women in society.

At the heart of PROHIBITION: THIRTEEN YEARS THAT CHANGED AMERICA is an extraordinary diversity of characters, including:

· Vincenzo Capone, alias Richard "Two Gun" Hart, the long-lost brother of Al Capone was the midwest's most famous moonshine chaser

· Carrie Nation, a member of the Kansas City Women’s Union, who single-handedly axed saloons to splinters

· Henry Ford, the teetotaling industrialist who had the homes of his workers inspected for "clean living"

· Wayne Wheeler, the architect of the nation’s first pressure group, The Anti Saloon League, whose scheming in Congress paved the way for modern lobbying in Washington.

"The show became a revelation to me on the grounds that we all grew up thinking the 'drys' were cripplers of progress and freedom," says narrator, Ed Asner.

Once considered as "God's gift" to mankind and an elixir for almost every type of ailment, liquor ultimately emerged as the inalienable cause of numerous social problems -- from escalating domestic abuse to an untold amount of alcohol-related deaths. Among the captivating and frank interviews from eyewitnesses are a man who ran four speakeasies, a coastguardsman who chased rumrunners on Rum Row, a newspaper editor who tried to take on Capone, a Ziegfeld Girl who used to dine with all the big gangsters of the time, the son of the D. "

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