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May 27, 2010

When Liquor Was Prescribed as Medicine

Author Daniel Okrent describes how wealthy people managed to evade Prohibition in this episode of Slate V's Bookmark. Link

: American History, Books, food, medicine, Odd, public health, scoundrels

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