Author: Dorr, Rheta Childe.
Title: Drink: Coercion or Control?
Description: New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1929. 1929. - Octavo, golden yellow cloth titled with purple panels at the top of the front cover & the spine. The covers are slightly rubbed along the edges and the head and tail of the faded spine. 330 pages, illustrated with 2 plates at the front. The endpapers are soiled and the pages slightly darkened. A few leaves are roughly opened. Very good.

First edition. A study of prohibition laws throughout the Western world. The book compares the total prohibition as legislated in the USA to the State Control and taxation of alcohol as practiced in Europe. The author argues that the present laws have created a nation of law breakers. Very good .

Keywords: AMERICANA; TEMPERANCE; ALCOHOLISM; ALCOHOL; PROHIBITION; LIQUOR; RHETA CHILDE DORR; LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION; STOCKHOLM LIQUOR STORE; STATE CONTROL; POLITICS; AMERICAN HISTORY; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; COERCION OR CONTROL; DRI

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