Mark Lawrence Schrad

Mark Lawrence Schrad is an associate professor of political science at Villanova University and the author of Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition (Oxford University Press).

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  1. The Truth About Prohibition

    The temperance movement wasn’t an example of American exceptionalism; it was a globe-spanning network of activists and politicians who tilted not against sin but against economic exploitation.

    Mark Lawrence Schrad
    Prohibition agents examining barrels on boat, c. 1925.
    Library of Congress