What Prohibition Has Done to America: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

What Prohibition Has Done to America, credited to Fabian Franklin, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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Librivox recording of What Prohibition Has Done to America by Fabian Franklin. In What Prohibition Has Done to America, Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Beginning in 1920, this Amendment prohibited the sale and manufacture of alcoholic beverages in the United States, until it was repealed in 1933. Franklin contends that the Amendment "is not only a crime against the Constitution of the United States, and not only a crime against the whole spirit of our Federal system, but a crime against the first principles of rational government." Writing only two years after Prohibition began, he correctly predicts many of its disastrous consequences, such as runaway bootlegging and organized crime. The book is both a passionate defense of liberty, and a reminder to Americans of the perils of surrendering it. (Summary by Leon Mire)

Recording facts

• Recording title: What Prohibition Has Done to America
• Author credits: Fabian Franklin
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 2:21:40

Catalogue topics

• history
• America
• Prohibition

Track guide

1. 01 - Perverting the Constitution — 10:23
2. 02 - Creating a Nation of Lawbreakers — 10:51
3. 03 - Destroying Our Federal System — 12:40
4. 04 - How the Amendment Was Put Through — 13:45
5. 05 - The Law Makers and the Law — 6:57
6. 06 - The Law Enforcers and the Law — 10:27
7. 07 - Nature of the Prohibitionist Tyranny — 18:37
8. 08 - One Half of One Percent — 10:01
9. 09 - Prohibition and Liberty — 24:21
10. 10 - Prohibition and Socialism — 12:49
11. 11 - Is There Any Way Out? — 10:57

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