The word "prohibition" tends to conjure up images of smoky basement speakeasies, dancing flappers, and hardened gangsters bootlegging whiskey.
Prohibition\'s Greatest Myths: The Distilled Truth about Am.
Such stereotypes, a prominent historian recently noted in the Washington Post , confirm that Americans\' "common understanding of the prohibition era is based more on folklore than fact." Popular culture has given us a very strong, and very wrong, picture of what the period was like.
The word "prohibition" tends to conjure up images of smoky basement speakeasies, dancing flappers, and hardened gangsters bootlegging whiskey