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TROUBLING HABITS, POISONS OF CIVILIZATION, AND STATE GROWTH - Lisa McGirr. The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2016. 352 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-393-06695-1.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2018

Jessica R. Pliley
Jessica R. Pliley*
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Texas State University
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jp74@txstate.edu
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , April 2018 , pp. 412 - 415
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NOTES

1 Novak, William J., “The Myth of the ‘Weak’ American State,” American Historical Review 113:3 (2008): 752–72CrossRefGoogle Scholar, 763.

2 Burnham, John C., Bad Habits: Drinking, Smoking, Taking Drugs, Gambling, Sexual Misbehavior and Swearing in American History (New York: New York University Press, 1999), 5Google Scholar; Okrent, Daniel, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (New York: Scribner, 2010), 3Google Scholar.

3 States were, and are, the greatest beneficiaries of forced labor in prisons. Genevieve LeBaron, Prison Labor, Capitalism & the American State (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, forthcoming).

4 Novak, “The Myth of the ‘Weak’ American State,” 766.

5 Ibid., 756. I make a similar point in Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014), 84–105Google Scholar. See also Fox, Cybelle, Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012)Google Scholar.

6 Okrent, Last Call, 30, 54.

7 Ibid., 98.

8 Ibid., 299.

9 Ibid., 362.

10 Courtwright, David T., Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001), 156Google Scholar. For “tax addition,” see 155.

11 Ibid., 165.

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