Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1987
Abstract
Owner of the prohibition longevity record, Kansas has a history that in large part focuses on the suppression of intoxicating beverages. Prohibition divided Kansans longer and deeper than any other issue, and none is better to explain the social texture and personality of the state. Eschewing that opportunity, historians have tended to minimize its importance and treat it in a cursory fashion. This book is the first scholarly and comprehensive analysis of prohibition from inception to demise in the purportedly driest state iIi America. The examination of Kansas in a broad context also adds a dimension to prohibition as a national phenomenon.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly FALL 1987. Copyright 1987 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.