HISTORY BOOK CLUB - Thursday, September 23

HISTORY BOOK CLUB
Thursday, September 23, 7:30 pm
Welcome For its next meeting, the Historic Newton Book Club has selected Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent. In this authoritative history of America's most puzzling era, Okrent describes how the odd bedfellows of the anti-liquor forces – suffragettes, Klu Klux Klansmen, Boston puritans and rural sharecroppers, among others – succeeded in making Prohibition the law of the land by a lopsided legislative majority representing a demographic minority. Okrent tells the very entertaining and instructive history of the disastrous and unintended consequences of America's "noble experiment." The book club is free and open to all.