Repeal and Reckoning: How the Depression Dismantled Prohibition
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Repeal and Reckoning: How the Depression Dismantled Prohibition
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This episode draws together the threads of the entire Prohibition era: the Volstead Act's enforcement failures, the Coast Guard's costly expansion to combat rum-runners, and the Internal Revenue Service's unlikely role in finally bringing Al Capone to justice on tax evasion charges in 1931. It examines how Lucky Luciano's Broadway Mob and Meyer Lansky's financial genius transformed street-level bootlegging into structured, multi-million-dollar criminal syndicates — enterprises so well-organised they outlasted Prohibition itself.
The class divide that ran through the entire era comes into sharp focus here. The wealthy drank well in high-end speakeasies stocked with Scottish whiskey. The poor made do with bathtub gin that could cause blindness or death. Those who preached Prohibition the loudest were rarely the ones who suffered its consequences.
The Great Depression changed public opinion not through moral argument but through economic necessity. Lost tax revenues from alcohol, mass unemployment, and the spectacle of organised crime operating openly across American cities made repeal impossible to resist. In December 1933, the Twenty-First Amendment ended the Eighteenth — the only time in American history one constitutional amendment has repealed another.
This is the reckoning: what Prohibition cost, what it built, and why it failed on its own terms.
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